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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. . | THE CURSE OF EDUCATION Publisher s Announcement A NOTABLE BOOK DRIFTING Crown 8vo. cloth 2s. 6d. THIRD EDITION 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 country. The Outlook. 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 Pg vi false in principle and that teaching itself as opposed to natural development and self-culture is the greatest obstacle to human progress that social evolution has ever had to encounter. HAROLD E. GORST. London April 1901. CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE L FLOURISHING MEDIOCRITY 1 II. SQUARE PEGS IN ROUND HOLES 8 III. THE DESTRUCTION OF GENIUS 18 IV. HUMAN FACTORIES 26 V. THE GREATEST MISERY OF THE GREATEST NUMBER 35 VI. THE OUTPUT OF PRIGS .
