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the call of their country or are already in service along lines for which long and 

 thorough training has prepared them. The supply of such workers for public 

 welfare must be augmented. Many teachers are leaving schools and colleges to 

 take up Government service, but instead of fewer teachers, more are constantly 

 needed to carry on the program called for in a complete education. Vocational 

 training has possibilities as yet only beginning to be fulfilled. Whether it be 

 pupils in public schools, or the teachers guiding their education, vocationalists, 

 industrialists or, higher up in the scale of training, specialists of university and 

 research grade, everywhere more workers and better training are demanded. 

 By better training is meant not only a firmer grasp of the facts underlying 

 knowledge but also a breadth of vision which applies that knowledge, not 

 alone to physical and mental development but to spiritual upgrowth as well. 



Criticizing present-day methods, especially of training in science. Sir H. H. 

 Johnston addressed to the Association of Public School Science Masters these 

 expressive words: "It is almost universally agreed that the education of the 

 impressionable young cannot be confined to the cultivation of the muscles 

 and the steadying of the nerves, to the care of the teeth and removal of ade- 

 noids, to the initiation into the mechanical arts and the decorative arts, nor to 

 the filling of the mind with an encyclopedia of useful information. You have, 

 in addition to caring for mind and body, to impart such education as may here 

 with great, there with only partial success, turn the raw material of your 

 pupils into good men and women, honest servants of the state, enthusiastic 

 patriots and law-abiding citizens, obeying, however, wise and humane laws 

 which they are competent to frame and understand. 



"Into this third great branch of education (that of the education of the 

 soul) science, founded on demonstrable truth alone, must enter; superstition 

 must be banned. The scientific basis and authority for temperance and chastity 

 must be explained; children must be shown that wrongdoing against one's self 

 or the community does not pay in the long run; that against one's own body 

 and mind it is rapidly punished; that against the community not only are 

 there unpleasant consequences through the enforcement of laws which we have 

 made for the protection of the community, but, also, that the wrongdoer him- 

 self would suffer in security and happiness were there no such laws." 



It is, perhaps, due as much to this one great lack in the educational system 

 of our present foe, namely, the neglect of the education of the soul, as to any 

 cause, that mental perspective has become so out of alignment and spiritual 

 sympathy and common humanity so startlingly absent among a people for 

 many of whose methods of training universal respect has hitherto been enter- 

 tained. There is much to criticize in our own system, so much, indeed, that we 

 will do well to take the matter up intelligently and conscientiously. Have the 

 schools in your vicinity been brought up to as high an average standard as is 

 consonant with the needs of the times? Are you resting satisfied with bodily 

 and mental training, the removal of adenoids and condensed, encyclopedic 



