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“Sir Edwin Chadwick (1800-1890) was an England reformer. His words are true and relevant in 2025. He said, “There is a moral as well as an intellectual objection to the custom, frequent in these times, of making education consist in a mere smattering of twenty different things, instead of in the mastery of five or six.”

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Book:James Ed Hoskins and the One-Room Schoolhouse: The Unprosecuted Crime Against Children

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