Social Environment 



proves more or less adequate. Here we have 

 still much to learn. We seem sometimes to have 

 forgotten that the aim of school and college is 

 not primarily learning, but the development of 

 strong, efficient, well-balanced men and women, 

 who can bear the burdens and do the work of 

 their own place in life, and meet the emergencies 

 of a complex civilization. 



The chief business of the lower grades is, or 

 should be, to promote healthy physical growth. 

 The body of the young boy and girl demands 

 more care and attention than the mind. Pul- 

 monary, rather than cerebral, capacity is the 

 best promise of future usefulness. Playground, 

 garden, and gymnasium can help more than desk 

 and recitation. Both are needed, but the physi- 

 cal is first, afterwards that which is mental and 

 spiritual. 



Our high schools are fast becoming people's 

 colleges where all are introduced to the best and 

 most inspiring in art, literature, science, in mor- 

 als and religion. Skill in handicraft is receiving 

 some of the honor and attention due to it. 

 Schools and colleges are fast escaping from the 

 thralldom of a mere academic learning, whose 

 value was usually proportional to its remoteness 



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