Excerpt from Sins and Safeguards of Society The address and also the review on Education of the People have intrinsic value. They present, also, a striking contrast between the educational privileges of American towns and cities sixty years ago and at the present time. Parker is inspired by and gives sup port to his contemporaries, the distinguished educators George B. Emerson and Horace Mann, who were la boring with the people and with the Massachusetts Legislature for ampler provision for the education of American youth and society. He urges the establish ment of high schools, normal schools, girls' schools, the education and employment of female teachers, a higher value set on teaching as an occupation and larger compensation; discountenances sectarian col leges, suggests the university system; insists upon scientific and literary culture for women as well as for men; points out the need of public libraries, the free lecture system and other agencies of public education. In his day these had scant existence, and it is interest ing to see how the outline he sketches has been filled in - by what enlightened public sentiment, what generous legislative enactment, and by what wealth of endowment.

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