Study — Michael Müller, C.SS.R.

Public School Education

Name: Public School Education
Author: Michael Müller, C.SS.R.

First published 1872. Müller's Public School Education (Patrick Donahoe, Boston, 1872), from the Project Gutenberg transcription of the print (ebook #28036), with every word preserved. Download: PDF · EPUB The original this transcription was made from: Project Gutenberg #28036.

A Redemptorist's case, argued at the height of the American school controversy of the 1870s, that the education of children belongs to the family and the Church and not to the State — the duty of Catholic parents, the rights the author held the common-school system to violate, and the bishops' and popes' teaching on mixed and godless schooling.

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Title Page
Contents (as printed)
CHAPTER I. Introductory
CHAPTER II. Education—Its Object and Necessity
CHAPTER III. Origin of the Public School System
CHAPTER IV. Expose of the Public School System
CHAPTER V. Evil Consequences of the Public School System on the Male Portion of Society
CHAPTER VI. Evil Consequences of the Public School System on the Female Portion of Society
CHAPTER VII. What is it to be a Mother?
CHAPTER VIII. Evil Consequences of the Public School System Continued
CHAPTER IX. The State.—Its Usurpation of the Individual Rights.—Its Incompetency to Educate
CHAPTER X. The State a Robber.—Violation of Our Constitution and Common Law
CHAPTER XI. Remedy for the Diabolical Spirit and the Crimes in Our Country
CHAPTER XII. The Denominational System Alone Satisfies the Wants of All, and Can Save the Republic
CHAPTER XIII. The Catholic Priest on the Public School System
CHAPTER XIV. Answers to Objections
CHAPTER XV. Zeal of the Priest for the Catholic Education of Our Children