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Quotation from Considerations on Representative Government by John Stuart Mill
“I regard it as wholly inadmissible that any person should participate in the suffrage without being able to read, write, and, I will add, perform the common operations of arithmetic.”
Considerations on Representative Government, Ch. VIII (Project Gutenberg text)
The educational condition Mill attaches to an otherwise very wide suffrage, joined to a demand that schooling be within everyone's reach.
Citation: "I regard it as wholly inadmissible that any person should participate in the suffrage without being able to read, write, and, I will add, perform the common operations of arithmetic." — John Stuart Mill, Considerations on Representative Government, Ch. VIII (Project Gutenberg text). (id mill-considerations-on-representative-government-q6)
Portrait: John Stuart Mill by London Stereoscopic Company, c1870, London Stereoscopic Company, Public domain.
