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" If the government would make up its mind to require for every child a good education, it might save itself the trouble of providing one. It might leave to parents to obtain the education where and how they pleased, and content itself with helping to pay... "
The Melbourne Review - Page 332
1885
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The Church Quarterly Review, Volume 65

1908 - 548 pages
...keep the others up to a certain standard of excellence.' Mill maintained that the Government should make up its mind to require for every child a good education, and then save itself the trouble of providing it. But the instrument by which he suggested the Government...
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On Liberty

John Stuart Mill - 1913 - 88 pages
...and labour which should have been spent in educating, to be wasted in quarrelling about education. If the government would make up its mind to require...itself the trouble of providing one. It might leave to parent! to obtain the education where and how they pleased, and content itself with helping to pay...
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Utilitarianism, Liberty, Representative Government

John Stuart Mill - 1922 - 432 pages
...time and labour which should have been spent in educating to be wasted in quarrelling about education, If the government would make up its mind to require...itself the trouble of providing one. It might leave to parent* to obtain the education where and how they pleased, and content itself with helping to pay...
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On Liberty

John Stuart Mill - 1921 - 84 pages
...spent in educating, to be wasted in quarrelling about education. If the government would make up ita mind to require for every child a good education,...school fees of the poorer classes of children, and defraymg the entire school expenses of those who have no one else to pay for them. The objections which...
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On Liberty

John Stuart Mill - 1926 - 84 pages
...and labour which should have been spent in educating, to be wasted in quarrelling about education. If the government would make up its mind to require...good education, it might save itself the trouble of providing^ne. It might leave to parents to obtain the education where and how they pleased, and content...
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Technology and Civility: The Skill Revolution in Politics

Heinz Eulau - 1977 - 132 pages
...dangerous. On Liberty was written before universal education, which Mill favored, had been introduced. "If the government would make up its mind to require for every child a good education," he wrote, "it might save itself the trouble of providing one." Implicit in this statement is an interesting...
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The Supreme Court and the Idea of Progress

Alexander M. Bickel - 1978 - 236 pages
...The views of Gardner and Friedman are derived from John Stuart Mill, who insisted on egalitarianism. "If the government would make up its mind to require for every child a good education," wrote Mill, "it might save itself the trouble of providing one. It might leave to parents to obtain...
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The Liberal Self: John Stuart Mill's Moral and Political Philosophy

Wendy Donner - 1991 - 244 pages
...Chapter 5 he argues that the state has a duty to educate and develop its citizens. But he goes on: If the government would make up its mind to require...it might save itself the trouble of providing one. . . . The objections which are urged with reason against State education, do not apply to the enforcement...
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Journal, Volume 44

Michigan Schoolmasters' Club - 1909 - 238 pages
...That the Board has no directing but only an exacting power is a real advantage in reaching its end. "If the government would make up its mind to require...it might save itself the trouble of providing one," said John Stuart Mill not many years ago. The simplification of machinery, the emphasis on ends as...
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Learning from the Past: What History Teaches Us about School Reform

Diane Ravitch, Maris A. Vinovskis - 1995 - 406 pages
...and labor which should have been spent in educating, to be wasted in quarrelling about education ... It might leave to parents to obtain the education...and content itself with helping to pay the school fees.8 Mill was advocating choice as a solution to the conflicts among an established Anglican church,...
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