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REGARDING PROGRESSIVE EDUCATION AND UNSCHOOLING
"Every method of education founded, wholly or in part, on the denial or forgetfulness of original sin and of grace, and relying on
the sole powers of human nature, is unsound. Such, generally speaking, are those modern systems bearing various names which appeal to a pretended self-government and unrestrained
freedom on the part of the child...attributing to the child an exclusive primacy of initiative, and an activity independent of any higher law, natural or divine, in the work of education....such men
are miserably deluded in their claim to emancipate, as they say, the child, while in reality they are making him the slave of his own blind pride and of his disorderly affections..."
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