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The School of the Future 



THE pupils in a certain school were asked 

 whether they could define or distinguish 

 an educated man. After a long pause, one 

 little girl raised her hand and said that she 

 surely could tell. " An educated man," the 

 child said, " is one that does not work." 



This homely reply admirably illustrates a 

 popular conception of education, that it does 

 not put one into direct relation with the affairs 

 of life, as if education and occupation are 

 incompatible. 



Most of us will not accept the child's opinion ; 

 yet there seems to be a deep-rooted feeling that 

 a person cannot be really educated by means 

 of subjects that have a direct application to the 

 common necessities of living. It was an old 

 idea that education makes a man accomplished. 



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