On the Firing Line in Education

interest in the other. But before we can discuss at all intelligently the matter of relationship it will be necessary to look at the two separately?objectively, as it were?to note the function of each and its place in the educational system of the State. What is the university? What is the high school? And what is the work of each ? are questions that must first be answered. In the first place, of course, the two are but parts of a still larger whole, neither being an independent, self-sufficing entity. The larger whole is the educational system of the State, of which there is one other part equally important with the two named, even the elementary school. And all three parts forming the whole are creations of the State, devised, controlled, and maintained for a very definite purpose? namely, the welfare and happiness of our people. While it is true that the three parts are correlative, each supplementing the others and the systemincomplete without all three, it is also true that they are co-ordinate, no one of the three being, per se, in authority over any other, nor any one subordinate to another. Let me put before you, very briefly, that we may all be thinking together, the system in its outlines and then discuss each of its parts, trying to discover its function and its mode of work. Then we shall pass to the matter of relationship. The system as a whole covers and tries to provide for the entire school life of the individual. The elementary period,...