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them. We are now in the epoch of the 

 domination of the schools by the colleges. 

 Narrow literary college entrance require- 

 ments are wholly out of character with the 

 present necessities of living. As soon as the 

 public schools begin to connect with the 

 industries, all antiquated kinds of tests 

 must go; I look for secondary teaching in 

 agriculture to help in this, although at pre- 

 sent we have no schools to articulate with 

 the people on the one hand and the col- 

 leges of agriculture on the other. The high 

 school has been over-developed in its prevail- 

 ing form. It probably represents the end of a 

 line of social evolution, and we may need to 

 go back and take a new start. 



The schools are dominated too much by 

 system and regularity. The control by state 

 departments is constantly becoming more 

 rigid. Our effort seems to be to make the 

 educational processes uniform for all pupils, 

 notwithstanding the fact that no two pupils 

 are or ought to be alike. There is now agita- 

 tion for more thorough supervision of the rural 



