We will be failing the memories and struggles of the
Suffragettes and Suffragists this centenary if we do not learn and reflect on
how they saw schooling helping to create healthy, vital human beings who would
work and live together as equals.
They worked with and were a part of the community of the
impoverished, the down trodden, the brutalised working class, and Arthur St
John’s plea, a voice of a community, should not only bring tears to our eyes,
but debate and action to our lives.
“… I have spoken out of the agony of my soul; for daily I
see children, such dear children – who are, or might be, all glorious within,
stunted by ill-usage, cabined, cribbed, confined by circumstance, souls unfree
in children of unfree parents, only partly alive – and my heart cries out ‘How
long?’ “
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