Michael R. H. Swanson, Ph. D.
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Read, in Schlereth
Chapter 7, Striving
There is always a way to rise, my boy
Always a way to advance
Yet the road that leads to Mount Success
Does not pass by the way of Chance
But goes through the stations of Work and Strive
through the valley of Persevere
And the man that succeeds while others fail,
Must be willing to pay most dear.
Alexander Lewis
Some of you will remember the little poem quoted above. Schlereth's chapter looks at the relationship between religion and education and the effects that religious ideas prevalent in the period acted as a stimulus for self improvement. We'll follow this through formal institutions like schools and colleges and into informal institutions like the Chautauqua Circuit and various schemes of self-education.