Show THE SCHOOLS firsa l i AGAINST how our rotten school system some orty forty alve or orty forty eight years ago when I 1 was just coming fam into young manhood we used to have spelling schools at night or where one district or of thoc holce 1 1 spellers from mads many would id meet to practice ing it fur turi 1 shed th boing i people a meeting meeting I 1 place as well as a chance 0 tot leara something I 1 besides we 4 daiji hd had three months school in one years time in our county wabash in northern thern indiana andt ana the county north of 0 us had two weeks longer or three months and one half still we had much better spellers at that time than any time since 1 I asa as a boy ot of 15 or 18 years bears could not be spelled down in the spelling book 4 I 1 went into one gaii to 10 shuck corn spelled the school down there while professional teachers and students spelled there from ahe the state normal and 0 other her schools tools from forsyth slid and maroa fine towns the school trust was then organizing I 1 suppose as they ordered the itte county superintendent that all al spelling schools should stop this was their first 0 offense ff ense by this order they crippled the public 1 of at that day their next offense tense of some soma ten years later was to arn arn their shoulders against the very highly elevated elevates eleva tec and moral teaching ol 01 1 phrenology I 1 I 1 think must have been done v very ery plo probably bably by ih estate university think the I 1 count county i superintendent hac had little oi or nothing to d do 0 with that part of 0 their aw own rl suicide As at tt that t tg time some som e of the independent teachers who probably did not belo belong ni tto their thieving book trust made a strong plea for phrenology coming coining into the schools horace mann americas greatest teacher was a friend and correspondent of 0 george compone Co Cor meone neone of the early authors we might say that horace mann did more to bring the school before all the people than any other fri individual still the book trust downed the elfort efforts ot of americas greatest teacher as well as phrenology at the same stroke why so because they found bound it q quite alte profitable 1 I suppose to concoct a lot of 0 tras hyi books without any scientific morals to them to hand out to our young and women and cripple their minas and by so doing put us all Ini bondage and keep keel us there u then to stick a k lnita eilf a in fit it belr own throat threat as it were they turned hard against the new ogy agy and concoct books of their own making each book and author of their own lying making esthe la the greatest scientist that ever lived accord ing to the school people namely hewett later sulley later white later roark and others and now james Is in the limelight ot of our thieving educational system that Is 13 keeping our people in bondage to my own knowledge knowledg 6 the new psychological writers done all in their power to turn the educators faces forward in place of backward but nothing seems to effect them on the side ot of truth and christ As th they eyare are fleecing fleeming flee cing the people who are frantically asking tor for educational cat ional bread but are being fed ed flinty dinty stones while they fleece the poor overtaxed people out ot of all they can raise on the farms and elsewhere while they are teaching leaching their so called psychology which I 1 is a nothing but a lot of well articulated lies bound up la in book form our university graduates teaching over our state in our high schools and elsewhere are arc nothing noth ing morg mor or ae less ian th an a rot fot a t moral r or al or mental cripples who are our most dangerous enemies to our uncle sam it if this Is all we are to expect of education I 1 am thankful I 1 have no education the hew new psychology represents the second coming oi of aur our saviour our dummy educators cannot grasp a higher ideal it s seems e ems they are enemies of the deop people le J B HARRIS |