It is the city that is wrong, and its creations can never be right; they may be improved; they can never be what they should…. Until the whole atrocious system of herding working people in close-built cities, by way of making them serviceable cogwheels in the capitalistic machine for grinding out rent and profit, comes to an end, the physical education of children will remain at best a pathetic compromise.

It is the city that is wrong, and its creations can never be right; they may be improved; they can never be what they should…. Until the whole atrocious system of herding working people in close-built cities, by way of making them serviceable cogwheels in the capitalistic machine for grinding out rent and profit, comes to an end, the physical education of children will remain at best a pathetic compromise.

– Voltairine de Cleyre –

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