Why We Oppose Schools for Children

(By the Children’s Anti-School League.)

1.  Because education is a burden, not a right.

2.  Because not one-tenth of one per cent. of the children of this country have demanded education.

3.  Because if we are educated we should have to behave as if we were and we don’t want to.

4.  Because it is essentially against the nature of a child to be educated.

5.  Because we can’t see that it has done so much for grown-ups, and there is no reason for thinking it will make children perfect.

6.  Because the time of children is already sufficiently occupied without going to school.

7.  Because it would make dissension between parent and child.  Imagine the home life of a parent who turned out to be more ignorant than his (or her) child?

8.  Because we believe in the indirect education of the theatre, the baseball field and the moving picture.  We believe that schools would in a great measure deprive us of this.

9.  Because our parents went to school.  They love us, they take care of us, they tell us what to do.  We are content that they should be educated for us.

But Then Who Cares for Figures

An argument sometimes used against paying women as highly as men for the same work is that women are only temporarily in industry.

Forty-four per cent of the women teachers in the public schools of New York have been more than ten years in the service, while only twenty-six per cent of the men teachers have served as long.

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The Bundesrath of Germany has decided to furnish medical and financial assistance to women at the time of childbirth, in order “to alleviate the anxiety of husbands at the front.”

How strange this would sound:  “The Bundesrath has decided to furnish medical assistance to the wounded at the front, in order to alleviate the anxiety of wives and mothers at home.”

When a benefit is suggested for men, the question asked is:  “Will it benefit men?”

When a benefit is suggested for women, the question is:  “Will it benefit men?”

Why We Oppose Votes for Men

1.  Because man’s place is the armory.

2.  Because no really manly man wants to settle any question otherwise than by fighting about it.

3.  Because if men should adopt peaceable methods women will no longer look up to them.

4.  Because men will lose their charm if they step out of their natural sphere and interest themselves in other matters than feats of arms, uniforms and drums.

5.  Because men are too emotional to vote.  Their conduct at baseball games and political conventions shows this, while their innate tendency to appeal to force renders them peculiarly unfit for the task of government.