Spirit/Water/Blood

By Reverend Doctor Robert Lewis Dabney
Who is the agent entitled to control education? What is right education? These questions are interdependent. Two answers have been proposed to the first in history: The State, the Church. In Europe, Liberalism says the State, and insists on secularizing education, by which it means its release from the control [...]

Dr. L. R. Dickinson, Editor, Planter, and Farmer.
Dear Sir:
I have read the essays of “Civis” in your December, January and February numbers with profound interest, and with general approbation. Concurring fully with him in the opposition to the whole theory of primary education by the State, I also feel the force of his views [...]

By Robert Lewis Dabney
Have you seen a single, sensible tax-payer, not a small politician, and thus a suitor for impecunious votes, nor a selfish beneficiary of the plunder disbursed by our school system, who does not denounce the whole measure as injust as mischievous? I have not. The plan has been tried and found wanting. [...]

By Reverend Doctor Robert Lewis Dabney
To Dr. Ruffner, Superintendent of Schools
18 April 1876
Repelling the Charge of Inconsistency; An Advocate of Universal Education, Provided it is True education; The Old Virginian Plan; School Houses and Jails; Educated Criminals; A Few Comparative Figures; Drenching and Drinking; Home Education
To W.H. Ruffner, Esq., Superintendent of State Schools:
Dear Sir: You [...]