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the teachers will arise. It would be reversing 

 all laws of natural development if teachers 

 should be trained before the need of them had 

 become concrete; and therefore I do not wish 

 to set up straw men or to pre-judge the obstacles. 



The present overcrowded program. 



I am constantly told, also, that the schools 

 are already overcrowded, and that new subjects 

 cannot be added. This shows a lack of com- 

 prehension as to what the coming education is: 

 it is not to be merely "added to" present 

 "courses of study/' but it is in time to reorgan- 

 ize courses of study and even to change the 

 point of view on education. It is to make a 

 new kind of school, with new methods of work, 

 new programs, and the formal book work is to 

 be only a part of the system. The redirected 

 school will have its own scheme and method. 



The difficulty at present is that we are trying 

 to push in additional things without giving way 

 with any of the old; we are trying to engraft 

 the new educational ideas on the old stock. In 

 time the old method will go, an indigenous 



