Ii8 Heredity and Child Culture 



should be educated with the idea of becoming a 

 wife rather than a school teacher. The keen- 

 ness of girls for higher education is shown by 

 the fact that they are beginning to outnumber 

 the men in colleges on a co-educational basis, 

 and the girls show a general preponderance in 

 numbers over the boys in the high schools of 

 New York, Philadelphia and Chicago. In both 

 sexes there is needed a simplification of the 

 whole educational process. 



One detail of school life that might be cor- 

 rected is the needless prolonging of vacations^ 

 which tends to make the working time too short 

 and strenuous. It would be better for health 

 to restrict the length of vacations and to work 

 under less pressure during the rest of the year. 

 Some reorganization of modern education at all 

 ages, but especially in the early years, is much 

 to be desired, and educators should face this 

 problem. It must primarily be borne in mind 

 that a true education of the young should be 

 based upon knowledge of biological, physio- 

 logical and psychological processes and carried 

 on in conformity to them. 



