Claims To Privilege

But right here, in these claims to "function" and "privilege," lies the base of error in modern education, which happily is now being gradually eliminated, as educators are being brought to their senses by criticism from business men or those who are invited to consume the product of the universities.

In the old days, when perhaps 90 percent of the people toiled on the land to bring forth human sustenance, there were two parties in rule over the land worker—the fighting man and the reading man—the warrior and the man of letters. The king harnessed both into his service and rested his government upon the army and the church. The church then held the domain of education, and considered that it held a special function to denounce error, and was alone privileged to proclaim truth.