We still send soldiers, but with them we send physicians to cure
the wounded; and when the soldiers' work is done we do not send
tax collectors or other civil vampires.
We send school teachers, publishers of newspapers, organizers of
labor unions. We send those agencies which shall enable the
people conquered to make themselves equal or superior to their
conquerors.
EDUCATION--THE FIRST DUTY OF GOVERNMENT
We wish to discuss with our readers in this and in later editions
of this newspaper the great and serious question of education.
It is a question as broad as the ocean, and as deep. It is a
question so vast that organized discussion of it seems hopeless.
The greatest minds of the world have devoted their powers to the
intricate question of developing the human brain, and the problem
has been scarcely touched.
The greatest works on education in the history of the world are
undoubtedly Plato's "Republic," Spencer's "Education" and
Rousseau's "Emile." The last is the greatest of all. It should
be read by every father and mother and by every earnest citizen.
Other works that may be earnestly recommended are Aristotle's
"Politics," Pestalozzi's "How Gertrude Teaches Her Children" and
Froebel's "Education of Man."
To Rousseau undoubtedly belongs the high honor of having thought
and written most powerfully, most originally and most practically
on the greatest of problems.
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