CHAPTER VIII 



THE PROBLEM OF EDUCATION 



THE problem of education, like many others we 

 have touched upon in the preceding chapters, is 

 incapable of final solution. There is now no general 

 consensus of opinion as to what is meant by the term, 

 no accepted road on which we may confidently travel 

 to attain the object in view, no agreement as to where, 

 when and by whom the goal has been attained. The 

 wisest man is most willing to admit that he has misused 

 his opportunities and is but imperfectly educated. 



If religion be understood in its literal sense of a 

 "binding together," of a search for the true relation 

 that should unite a man to the forces governing the 

 universe, then we would suggest that the theory of 

 education, or the "leading out," should be taken to 

 mean a knowledge of the possibilities of development 

 inherent in the human race, and a recognition of the 

 limitations within which each individual must work. 

 To any man, potentially, there is the chance of rising 

 to the highest rank of human development ; all men, 

 actually, are subject to the limitations of their inborn 

 qualities, and are compassed about by a network of 

 obligations and restrictions without which the society 



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