George Schorb

"Still our schools are very defective, both in the matter and the manner of instruction. Of the matter, I have spoken under the head of Intelligence. I will only add, that, instead of teaching this, that, and the other, merely for the sake of discipline, we can give the same discipline by studies and employments which are useful. As to the manner, we make parrots of children, teaching them to repeat things which mean nothing to them: as, for example, giving the direction of every country from every other country. Show them the countries on the map: and their relative position will be stamped on the mind. Their time is too precious for jargon. When the average child does not like school, the fault is in the school. He loves to listen to instructive talk at home. Then why would he not at school, if it were homelike?"

"Instead of teaching our children that the great virtues are not to drink, not to smoke, and not to swear, teach them that they are honesty, purity, and love."

"Jesus did not attack the sellers of strong drink. He denounced the men who stood in places of authority and influence, and who claimed to have the light yet kept the people in darkness."

"and Miss Edgeworth's motto, "Waste not, want not." But of all forms of extravagance, the worst is vice, and the remedy is virtue."

"All the sewage should be boxed up and sent into the country, to be put back into the soil."

"Nothing is more important than the work of the nurse, yet we appreciate it so little that we often entrust it to incompetent hands. Many children turn out badly, because they are brought up under such tuition. And many have no affection for their parents, because they were not nursed or taught by them."

"The great profits of capital during the last thirty years have made the workman dissatisfied with his small share. And the rich have not all gained their wealth by work."

"As Daniel Webster said: "It is imbedded in the soil, immovable as its mountains." If the people are discontented, it may be that their education has shown them the wrongs they suffer. If they are mistaken, they need more education to see their mistake. Ignorance is a kind of indolence, and the remedy for indolence is industry."

""For lo! the days are hastening on by prophet bards foretold, When with the ever-circling years Comes round the age of gold; When peace shall over all the earth its final splendors fling and all the world send back the song Which now the angels sing." — Sears."