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Title: The Curse of Education

Author: Harold E. Gorst

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THE CURSE OF EDUCATION

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A NOTABLE BOOK

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'An able and suggestive book.'--_The Spectator._

'It is a sane, healthy indication of the weak spots in the country's
armour, and a practical attempt to indicate remedies.'--_The Sunday
Special._

'The author's contempt for the time-serving politician, who in this
country has, unfortunately, come to count for so much in all
governments--Tory or Liberal--will be shared by the thinking portion of
his fellow countrymen.'--_The Financial News._

'By such suggestions the author of "Drifting" does good service to the
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LONDON: GRANT RICHARDS
9, Henrietta Street, W.C.

The
Curse of Education

BY
HAROLD E. GORST

London
Grant Richards
1901

PREFATORY NOTE

In calling this little book 'The Curse of Education,' I trust that I
shall not be misunderstood to disparage culture. The term 'education' is
used, for want of a better word, to express the conventional mode of
teaching and bringing up children, and of educating youth in this and
other civilized countries. It is with education systems, with the
universal method of cramming the mind with facts, and particularly with
the manufacture of uniformity and mediocrity by subjecting every
individual to a common process, regardless of his natural bent, that I
have chiefly to find fault. At a moment when the country is agitated
with questions of educational reform, I thought it might be useful to
draw attention to what I believe to be a fact, namely, that the
foundations of all existing education systems are absolutely false i