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subnormal but not certifiable class, is progressing by leaps and 

 bounds. It is perhaps the most absurd frailty of our present 

 system of education that it takes almost no account of innate 

 differences in educability. To spend money upon the teaching 

 of these children along lines where they are unteachable is not 

 only waste pure and simple, but crime, for it deprives the 

 educables of their just due. 



These, of course, are the crude and simple lines upon which 

 the finer and more complex evolution of the endocrine problems 

 of the school child will build. The fine art of education itself 

 is crude and gross and simple compared with what it might be, 

 even as a beginning. The science of education has yet to begin, 

 as the offspring of that science of the future, to which knowledge 

 of the internal secretions will contribute no little, the science cf 

 puericulture. 



Vocational Education 



It is difficult, indeed, to avoid becoming merely enthusiastic 

 upon the possibilities of the applications of the endocrines to 

 the educational domain. Happiness for the average individual 

 consists of a double success — success in his vocation (chosen or 

 forced upon him) and success in his sex life. A certain hue and 

 cry has been raised in the last few years concerning the vast 

 and overwhelming importance of sex in the happiness and even 

 in the successes of a man's everyday life. And no doubt there 

 is a relation. Sublimation plays its part in the explanation of 

 vocational idiosyncrasies. The fact, however, that perfect suc- 

 cess in sex may occur with absolute failure in the career, howe\ 

 splits the problem for good into its realities: a physiologic aspect 

 as well as a psychologic. 



So, as school education will have to take serious account of 

 endocrine anomalies and possibilities, will the institution which 

 selects and trains for a career. Vocational misfits have aroused 

 the ardor of our efficiency experts. And again, the sweeping 

 psychological attack hi sad against the 



ignorance of constitutional predispositions and tendencies of 

 material. The attempt to erect psychologic typ. nal 



selections could m v< r makt much boftdi H oould i 



Hound* t m I swamp Of metaphors, product of (he vices of its 

 methods. Not that anyone would wish to discard at all 

 psychologic mode of approach. But no 



