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ational training given in our primary schools. Furthermore, 
all capable students should reach the technical college or 
university ; while as a preparation for industry and com- 
merce, in spite of what “ practical ” men said, the best pos- 
sible scientific training was necessary. 
Finally, before it was ever possible to realise in the state 
a true efficiency, it was necessary to cast away the material 
standards of success in life ; we should then perhaps have 
fewer men rich in material possessions but we should have 
a country rich in the Ruskinian sense, for our chief national 
concern would be the production of souls of good quality. 
Surely the consummation of wealth for a state lay in the 
possession of as many full-breathed, bright-eyed and happy- 
hearted human creatures as possible. Such a consummation 
was an ideal of national efficiency worth striving for, and 
the way that led to it was the truest education. 
