Education Reform Critique: Producing Greeks and Romans
The emperor of Germany is going to reform the higher school system of that empire, because, as he says, the system as it has been “produces too many Greeks and Romans,” instead of men fitted for modern life. That is the bane of the school system of the United States; and it needs reforming, just as much as does that of Germany. The empires of Greece and Rome went to ruin as the result of the corruption of the Greeks and Romans. And any nation that produces Greeks and Romans is only working its own ruin. And how can anything but Greeks and Romans be produced by an education the chief literature of which is only Greek and Roman? From the London Daily Mail of January 17, in a dispatch from the Mail’s correspondent at Cape Town, January 15, we clip the following item, which will be of interest to all our readers. The Daily Mail has the largest circulation of any paper in England:— Lord Roberts has visited the huge sanitarium at Claremont, of the Seventh-day Adventists, which is a branch of the famous institution at Battle Creek, Michigan, U. S. A. He expressed himself delighted with the appointments and accommodation. The British army is occupying a wing of the Claremont Sanitarium as a hospital for wounded officers.