As a result of the present disintegration of family life, of a crisis in morality and the break between religion and life, and finally of a crisis in the political state and the civic conscience, there is everywhere a tendency to burden education with remedying all these deficiencies. This involves a risk of warping educational work, especially when immediate transformations are expected from its supposedly magical power.

Warping education
As a result of the present disintegration of family life, of a crisis in morality and the break between religion and life, and finally of a crisis in the political state and the civic conscience, there is everywhere a tendency to burden education with remedying all these deficiencies. This involves a risk of warping educational work, especially when immediate transformations are expected from its supposedly magical power.
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