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The only other school where girls are well taught is the High School at Adelaide, but being a day-school and a State-school, it cannot be expected to pay much attention to the social side of education. The private schools for girls attain but a poor standard in instruction, and a worse one still, when socially considered.
As the result of impartial history, then, we see that the foundation of the State-school system is nothing else than the objectionable Protestant State-church, and especially revolutionary socialism. But most absurd did the State-school system appear after it had been transplanted into free America.
Something over thirty years ago Herbert Spencer wrote: 'She was at school, where her memory was crammed with words and names and dates, and her reflective faculties scarcely in the slightest degree exercised. In those days, as many old State-school boys well remember, to learn was, indeed, to work, and when fitting occasion offered, we 'wagged it' conscientiously, even though we did have to 'touch our toes' for it when we returned.
His books: "Education, how Old the New" "The Thirteenth Century" will prove most interesting reading. Already a reactionary policy is being enacted in several countries where for years the State-School was the only one to share in the public treasury.
We were granting then to the new Republic a sacred right which we still refuse to our own at home, in the Province of Manitoba! VII. A Religious Reason The creation of the state-school, necessarily undenominational in character, has made the "separate school" an absolute necessity. If religion has any meaning in life this reason of our separation should be most convincing.
Tony Taylor had gone off and had hardly wished her good-bye, and Tony and she had been as brother and sister, only more so, since the day when they first met and began to climb through all the standards of the State-school education, beginning at the very lowest of the grades, together.
The better we know these, the deeper our admiration for them, the better the outlook for ourselves and our accomplishment." The State-school is an institution comparatively of very recent date and has no right to be heralded as the final expression of an educational system in a democracy.
"What we most dread," said Bishop McQuaid, "is not the direct teaching of the State-school, it is the indirect teaching which is most insidious and most dangerous. It is the moral atmosphere, the tone of thought permeating these schools that give cause for alarm. It is the indifferentism with regard to all religious belief we most of all fear.
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