Now, why do you want to increase the poor child's horizon farther than her little feet can carry her?
Fit her to be a good female soldier in the ranks of labor, to be a good wife and mother to the makers of shoes, to wash and iron their uniforms of toil, to cook well the food which affords them the requisite nourishment to make shoes, to appreciate book-lore, which is a pleasure and a profit to the makers of shoes; possibly in the non-event of marriage she will make shoes herself.

The system of education in our schools is all wrong.

It is both senseless and futile.

Look at the children filing past to school, and look at their fathers, and their mothers too, filing past to the factory.
Look at their present, and look at their future.

And look at the trash taught them in their text-books--trash from its utter dissociation with their lives.