With the particular value of his scheme of education I am not concerned. He was well acquainted with pædagogical literature, and there were few elementary schools in Spain to equal his. Writers who have spoken slightingly of his school, apart from its social dogmas, know little or nothing about it. Ferrer was in close and constant association with two of the ablest professors in the university of Barcelona, one of whom sent his children to the school, and with distinguished scholars in other lands. There was more stimulating work done in the Modern School than, probably, in any other elementary school in Spain, if not elsewhere. All that can be questioned is the teaching of an explicit social creed to the children. Ferrer would have rejoined that there was not a school in Europe that does not teach an explicit social creed. But, however we may differ from his creed, we cannot fail to recognise the elevated and unselfish idealism of the man, and deplore the brutality and illegality with which his genial life was prematurely brought to a close. [[111]]
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THE
MARTYRDOM OF
FERRER.
A True Account of His Life and Work.
By JOSEPH McCABE.
Contents:—
Introduction.
The Life and Aims of Ferrer.
The Church in Spain.
The Political System of Spain.
The Modern Schools.
The Reply of Corruption.
The Indictment of Ferrer.
The Death of Ferrer—and the Echo.
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