The Goslings: A Study of the American SchoolsSinclair, Upton
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The Goslings: A Study of the American Schools
Sinclair, Upton
Education -- United States
Next, the National Chamber of Commerce, under the guidance of Professor
Strayer of Columbia University, Educator-in-Chief of J. P. Morgan &
Company. This mighty school magnate has organized a committee for
co-operation between chambers of commerce and city school departments.
We have seen this “co-operation” working in many cities, resembling the
alliance between the lady and tiger—“they came back from the ride with
the lady inside!” The co-operating organization is known by the imposing
title of “The American City Bureau of the National Committee for
Chambers of Commerce Co-operation with Public Schools”; think what a
delicious mouthful for a functionary—executive secretary of the A. C. B.
N. C. C. C. C. P. S.!
This mammoth institution issued a report based upon a survey of schools
in nine hundred cities, from which most optimistic conclusions were
drawn by the “Outlook,” house organ of the firm of God, Mammon and
Company. Miss Josephine Colby, a “kicked-out” union teacher, wrote to
the “Outlook,” pointing out how misleading this editorial was, because
it gave the impression that the Chamber of Commerce report represented
the entire country, whereas it covered the large city schools, which are
the best, and left out the rural schools, which are the worst. Needless
to say, the “Outlook” had no space for this letter; and that is why
boards of education all over the United States recommend the “Outlook”
as proper reading for goose-herds and goslings.
Next, the National Industrial Conference Board, which is the research
and propaganda bureau of a long list of Big Business associations—cotton
manufacturers, hardware, paper and pulp, electrical, chemical, wool,
automobiles, boot and shoe, metal trades, erectors, founders, rubber,
silk, railway cars, etc. Here is one of the most powerful “educational”
organizations of the country; its active manager is a consulting
engineer of the General Electric Company, who got his education in
Austria and Germany, and is working to introduce the German system of
slave training. This great organization has been active all over the
country in censoring text-books and supervising the contents of our
children’s minds. At its instance the Chamber of Commerce in St. Louis
caused Washington University to cease using the book entitled “Community
and National Life,” by Professor Charles H. Judd, head of the department
of education of the University of Chicago.
Also, this National Industrial Conference Board discovered that the
Bureau of Education of the United States government was circulating a
series of pamphlets by Professor Judd, entitled “Lessons in Community
and National Life”; which pamphlets were discovered to be full of most
terrible Bolshevik material. They quite definitely labored to prejudice
the minds of little children against the leading doctrines of our
organized American manufacturers. Consider, for example, a sentence such
as the following:
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