Science in National Education 



the people a high form of individuality trained 

 to realise its aims through voluntary subordina- 

 tion and through co-operation in definite plans for 

 national welfare. 1 A strong sense of individuality 

 is the salt of true nationalism. The new state of 

 things which has come about through the prac- 

 tical applications of science calls for heightened 

 individuality as well as for a heightened sense 

 of nationalism the nationalism which does not 

 bluster, but which aims at greater efficiency in 

 international relationships. The two are comple- 

 mentary to one another, and safety lies not in their 

 being opposed (as would happen if one lagged 

 behind while the other grew) but in that equation 

 between them which it is the chief business of 

 education, viewed as a political and social influence, 

 to produce. 



It is the instinct, perhaps, that great reshapings 

 of national life are drawing near which has caused 

 one of the most striking results of the scientific 

 movement to be the reorganisation of national 

 education in many lands. Germany has gone the 

 furthest in this development of State education and 

 in the authoritative enforcement of its claims. No 

 one can study the German system of educational 

 administration and the work of the German schools 

 without profound admiration for the precision of 

 aim, the learning, the teaching skill, the patient 

 attention to detail and the constructive power 



1 For this reason it is, I submit, expedient that careful 

 physical training, leading up to volunteer service with arms, 

 should be a part of every youth's education. 



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