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The author is especially desirous that the reader 

 appreciate the situation sketched in the foregoing 

 paragraph. What does it mean ? It means that 

 our children are at last to have more nearly equal 

 opportunities of development, that their worthy 

 aptitudes or traits are to be brought out through 

 instruction and made to do service in the construction 

 of a sterling character. It means that we shall have 

 cultured artisans as well as cultured artists ; that the 

 plain man behind the plow or in the workshop 

 shall be capable of thinking the big, inspiring 

 thoughts as well as the little, puny ones. It means 

 that there will spring up everywhere among the 

 ranks of those once regarded as low and coarse, a 

 magnificent society of men and women who, as in- 

 dividuals, will feel and realize a secret sense of power 

 and worth, and who will shine in the light of a new 

 inspiration. 



THE BOY A BUNDLE OF POSSIBILITIES 



It has been proved beyond question that the ordi- 

 nary child contains at birth potentialities of devel- 

 opment far greater in amount and variety than any 

 amount of schooling can ever bring into full realiza- 

 tion. If you will make a list of one hundred differ- 

 ent and highly specialized vocations, and pause for 

 a moment to contemplate the matter, you will 

 doubtless agree that any common boy might be so 

 trained as to some degree in any one of the hundred 



