Education in Crisis!
August 29th, 2010 § Leave a Comment
It is lamentable, that many of our children go to school, from four until they are eight or ten, and sometimes fifteen years of age, and leave school knowing but a little more about the grammar of their language than a horse does about handling a musket–and not a few of them are really so ignorant, that they are unable to answer a person correctly, general questions in geography, and to hear them read, would only be to disgust a man who has a taste for reading; which to do well, as trifling as it may appear to some, (to the ignorant in particular) is a great part of learning. – David Walker, 1830
