Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 November 1893 — Education Criminal [ARTICLE]

Education Criminal

The Russian Government forbids anv one possessed of a superior education occupying any post which brings him into direct communication with the people. During a certain period. when the Russian revolutionary party reckoned upon a mass rising of the peasantry and wished to hasten this rising by piopaganda, several young people having spent from four to five years in the higher studies, left the universities without passing the final exams or taking their diplomas, in order not to be considered as having more than an average education, and so being enabled to obtain employment in the vi.lages. This ‘•fraud,” which consisted in renouncing not only a ! l hopes of a professional career, but also the pleasures of living in a cultured and intelligent society or eujoyiDg good books, etc., constitutes in the eyes oi‘ the police a strong aggrivation of the ‘crimes’’ discovered or even inspected |Ths Idler.