The origin and ideals of the modern school / by Francisco Ferrer ; translated by Joseph McCabe.
- Ferrer Guardia, Francisco, 1859-1909.
- Date:
- 1913
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The origin and ideals of the modern school / by Francisco Ferrer ; translated by Joseph McCabe. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![manifestation. Led always by the light of the ideal, I conceived and carried out the International League for the Rational Education of Children, in the various branches of which, scattered over the world, are found men in the front ranks of culture [Anatole France, Ernst Haeckel, etc.]. It has three organs, L Ecole Renovée in France, the Bu//etin in Barcelona, and La Scuola Laica at Rome, which expound, discuss, and spread all the latest efforts of pedagogy to purify science from all defilement of error, to dispel all credulity, to bring about a perfect harmony between belief and knowledge, and to destroy that privileged esoteric system which has always left an exoteric doctrine to the masses. This great concentration of knowledge and research must lead to a vigorous action which will give to the future revolution the character of practical manifesta- tion of applied sociology, without passion or demand of revenge, with no terrible tragedies or heroic sacri- fices, no sterile movements, no disillusion of zealots, no treacherous returns to reaction. For scientific and rational education will have pervaded the masses, making each man and woman a self-conscious, active, and responsible being, guiding his will according to his judgment, free for ever from the passions inspired by those who exploit respect for tradition and for the charlatanry of the modern framers of political pro- grammes. If progress thus loses this dramatic character of revolution, it will gain in firmness, stability, and continuity, as evolution. The vision of a rational](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b32758443_0123.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
