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Peabody on Public Schools Then and Now

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 6, 1877

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 50, No. 11.

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Peabody on Public Schools Then and Now

—Rev. Dr. Peabody, of Harvard University, thinks the public schools twenty-five years ago, with all their drawbacks and imperfections, did more for their pupils than our present costly institutions, with all their modern improvements. The latter are less practical than the former were. In history and geography they overload the child's mind with useless names and dates. They teach words rather than things.