“ Most educators of the poor seem to think that they have to teach the poor man not to drink. ”
G. K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World (1910). copy citation
| Author | G. K. Chesterton |
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| Source | What's Wrong with the World |
| Topic | drinking teaching |
| Date | 1910 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1717/1717-h/1717-h.htm |
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“In all these problems I should urge the solution which is positive, or, as silly people say, “optimistic.” I should set my face, that is, against most of the solutions that are solely negative and abolitionist. Most educators of the poor seem to think that they have to teach the poor man not to drink. I should be quite content if they teach him to drink; for it is mere ignorance about how to drink and when to drink that is accountable for most of his tragedies. I do not propose (like some of my revolutionary friends)”
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