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education as a whole; prescription and the freedom of the learner 

 should be regarded as concomitants in education of every grade; 

 they should work together in varying combinations to insure the 

 highest participation of the learner in the life of his people, in the 

 civilization of his time; and only through such combination may 

 education hope to prepare men for activity guided by real, personal 

 choice and inspired by the full sense of individual responsibility. 

 Such activity alone is moral; and by promoting such activity in the 

 cooperative life of this age education makes its contribution to 

 brotherhood, the supreme end, for this world, of human endeavor. 



But such education as is here contemplated is possible only in the 

 hands of better teachers better selected, better trained, better 

 supported of many teachers as good as the few, the best, who 

 are already found in the schools. If society would attain, through 

 education, such high ends as have been pointed out, it must seek 

 and find such teachers and make them the high stewards of its will. 



BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE 



The works to which reference has been had in the preparation of this paper 

 do not form any compact group but are scattered over many fields. Accordingly 

 no attempt has been made to list them in the form of a bibliography. The fol- 

 lowing are mentioned as among the more recent publications dealing specifically 

 with the subject of present-day problems and tendencies in education: 

 DEWEY, J., The situation as regards the course of study. In Educational Re- 

 view, vol. xxn, pp. 26-49, June, 1901. 

 ELIOT, C. W., Educational reform; essays and addresses. New York: The Century 



Company, 1898, pp. 9 + 418. 

 HUGHES, R. E., The making of citizens; a study in comparative education. New 



York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1905, pp. 405. 

 Mt v NCH, W., Zukunftspadagogik, Utopien, Ideale, Moglichkeiten. Berlin, 1904, 



pp. 4 + 269. 

 PAYNE, BRUCE RYBURN. Public elementary school curricula. New York: Silver, 



Burdett and Company, 1905, pp. 200. 

 RIBOT, A. F. J., La reTorme de 1'enseignement secondaire. Paris, 1900, pp. 12 + 



308. 



YOUNG, E. F., Some types of modern educational theory. (Contributions to edu- 

 cation, no. 6.) Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1902, pp. 70. 



