CHAPTER XIV 

 EDUCATION 



IN the popular view, education is a problem 

 of addition. The mind is thought of as a 

 storehouse where incoming goods are packed 

 better by the wise than by the ignorant. Or, 

 in another way, the same thought is empha- 

 sized when the brain is referred to as in- 

 creasing in size or weight. If the mind is a 

 storehouse, the more compartments it has the 

 more material can be put away to be brought 

 out when needed; indeed, the physiology of 

 large brains seems to support the analogy and 

 to justify the belief of men that knowledge is 

 merely a matter of addition. This also is the 

 thought back of the theory of the mind asso- 

 ciated with cell growth and which appears to 

 me to be little more than a clear statement of 

 the popular theory. The public finds, in new 

 language, the ideas it has held for ages, and 



