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proenvironing root-tip, or leaflet, or medusoid, or cephalopod, 

 or beaver, when the response has been effected, the educator 

 and Society that engages him or her are satisfied, till some 

 new and possibly higher stimulus comes into play. 



Even the history of evolving education has been one long 

 tribute to the efforts made by individual men, or by groups 

 of them toward compounding all of the most satisfying — 

 not always the best — responses into some one great proen- 

 vironal aspiration or effort, such as would steadily or even 

 rapidly advance them beyond any previous position. This 

 however may claim our attention in another place. 



But, viewed from the standpoint of proenvironment, the 

 mental development of every human being involves or should 

 involve two totally distinct but parallel processes, which, 

 when blended in effect, alone produce a truly symmetrical 

 life. These processes are: (a) instruction, (b) education. 

 The former should include all knowledge that bears on the 

 individual, the world, and the universe, as acting and reacting 

 in every relation on the individual and even mankind. Or 

 in other words it should include a study of the laws and activi- 

 ties that exist independent of any one man. These, when 

 mentally absorbed and understood, constitute his store of 

 knowledge of the universe. 



Education on the other hand should be the application to 

 the life of each individual, and so to that of the nation and of 

 humanity, of all the results of instruction, and also of the 

 highest results of the past education of ancestors; with the 

 aim of guiding each individual, each nation, and mankind 

 to pursue the most satisfying pathway for further evolution 

 along highest and safest lines. 



So instruction has nothing directly to do with proenvironal 

 responses, education has everything. Instruction involves a 

 static cataloging or storing up of facts of the world and the 

 universe, that are presented to and absorbed by each indi- 

 vidual. Education involves the utilization of such instruc- 

 tion, for the formation or preservation of a present good envir- 

 onment; or often — and most to be desired — the plotting out 



