The curse of education / by Harold E. Gorst.

Author
Gorst, Harold Edward, 1868-1950 [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
New York : E.P. Dutton & Company ; London : Grant Richards, 1901.
Description
1 online resource (vi, 144 pages).

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Series
Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood. [More in this series]
Notes
Reproduction of the original from the Teachers College, Milbank Memorial Library, Columbia University.
Contents
  • Flourishing mediocrity
  • Square pegs in round holes
  • The destruction of genius
  • Human factories
  • The greatest misery of the greatest number
  • The output of prigs
  • Boy degeneration
  • The struggle of the educated
  • Woman's empire over man
  • Youth and crime
  • Mental breakdown
  • Evidence of history
  • The apotheosis of cram
  • The great fallacy
  • Real education
  • The open door to intelligence.
OCLC
263174293
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