Excerpt from Political Education at a Public School<br><br>Alike shown a rare courage and devotion which has kept hope alive during the nightmare of the last three years. But such things are a tribute to the spirit of man, not to that of the Public Schools. Many writers - men like Mr Shaw, Mr Wells, and Mr J. A. Hobson - leave one with the impression that the only thing to do is to make a clean sweep of the whole evil system. Concentrating in the main on one issue, they see in the Public Schools the strongest bulwark of those reactionary forces of class selfishness and narrow patriotism which form the most dangerous opposition to the coming of a genuinely free and united democracy. Few who have honestly faced the facts will consider their accusation groundless; and at first sight the conclusion seems inevitable. Nevertheless, the Public Schools are supremely worth preserving. Reaction ary often in effect, they and the Older Universities stand almost alone in a commercial age of five per cent. Loans as being in the ultimate intention liberal.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.