The innocent outsider believes that the discussion about the proposal for free education will mainly address educational and social considerations. As long as the question was merely an academic interest, this was largely true. It is true that strong churches view with discontent the change that may increase the growing difficulties faced by voluntary school managers in balancing revenues and expenses, or even may lead them to abandon the council altogether, and that the enthusiasm of many enthusiasts from the other side to alleviate fees increases hope that such a measure will give a new boost to the formation of school councils. However, overall, the disputants at least in the public discussion tried to address the issue regarding the child, the teacher, and the parents. The burdened parent, the impact of partial exemption, the child who is prevented from school due to his parents’ poverty, and the teachers who have turned into tax collectives – these were characteristics of the first party; while the inventory of the other side included the necessity of protecting “parental responsibility” and emphasizing that no one values what they do not pay for, and that taxing the savings earned through effort from the upper-middle class to free the education of children from the little-valued and useless class was a proposal of the most hideous kind of socialism.
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The innocent outsider believes that the discussion about the proposal for free education will mainly address educational and social considerations. As long as the question was merely an academic interest, this was largely true. It is true that strong churches view with discontent the change that may increase the growing difficulties faced by voluntary school managers in balancing revenues and expenses, or even may lead them to abandon the council altogether, and that the enthusiasm of many enthusiasts from the other side to alleviate fees increases hope that such a measure will give a new boost to the formation of school councils. However, overall, the disputants at least in the public discussion tried to address the issue regarding the child, the teacher, and the parents. The burdened parent, the impact of partial exemption, the child who is prevented from school due to his parents’ poverty, and the teachers who have turned into tax collectives – these were characteristics of the first party; while the inventory of the other side included the necessity of protecting “parental responsibility” and emphasizing that no one values what they do not pay for, and that taxing the savings earned through effort from the upper-middle class to free the education of children from the little-valued and useless class was a proposal of the most hideous kind of socialism.
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The innocent outsider believes that the discussion about the proposal for free education will mainly address educational and social considerations. As long as the question was merely an academic interest, this was largely true. It is true that strong churches view with discontent the change that may increase the growing difficulties faced by voluntary school managers in balancing revenues and expenses, or even may lead them to abandon the council altogether, and that the enthusiasm of many enthusiasts from the other side to alleviate fees increases hope that such a measure will give a new boost to the formation of school councils. However, overall, the disputants at least in the public discussion tried to address the issue regarding the child, the teacher, and the parents. The burdened parent, the impact of partial exemption, the child who is prevented from school due to his parents’ poverty, and the teachers who have turned into tax collectives – these were characteristics of the first party; while the inventory of the other side included the necessity of protecting “parental responsibility” and emphasizing that no one values what they do not pay for, and that taxing the savings earned through effort from the upper-middle class to free the education of children from the little-valued and useless class was a proposal of the most hideous kind of socialism.
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The article titled “Educational Aspects of Free Education” was published in the journal Nature on June 25, 1891. It discusses the impact of free education on the child, teacher, and parents, highlighting the public debates surrounding the topic and the concerns related to the cost of free education and its impact on the upper-middle class. The proposal to impose taxes on the upper-middle class to fund the education of the less valued and ineffective group is considered a suggestion of the most reprehensible kind of socialism.
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