Excerpt from The Junior High School
It has been the traditional assumption that public schools are merely educative in function. To be sure this is their originating purpose and will remain their dominant one. But the scientific study of the careers of pupils indicates that the school system inevitably performs certain other functions which have large consequences for the students inasmuch as they retard, close, lengthen or determine the particular quality of the school education received.
One of these additional school functions is the protecting or conserving function which schools are always tending to exercise in special manner and varying degree. There is not much question that the schools of fifty years ago, with their rigid adherence to a narrow course of study and their continued favoring of those gifted in this restricted curriculum, were inclined to encourage the training of the few and to discourage the education of the many. In the present school system a far more democratic impetus is at work. More attention is being given to varied types of mind. Those who suffer physical and mental handicaps are given the merciful attention of medical inspectors, school nurses, school clinics and special classes with a regimen of their own.
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