Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 82, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 April 1915 — Declares Public Schools A Failure. [ARTICLE]

Declares Public Schools A Failure.

Public schools were pronounced undemocratic by Dr. Benjamin Ide Wheeler, president of the University of California before the teachers’ association. When every boy has a chance to rise and enjoy a good vacation then we will have a democracy about. whichwe may talk, he said. He also said that public schools are for the rich sons who have a slim enough chance anyway . Vocational training is an effort of aristocracy to hold the sons of laboring men in a life of toil and is a trick of the Europeans to sidetrack a boy, was another argument he used.