Excerpt from The Schools and the Nation
When we compare the development of the educational system of the modern State with the development of its political, military, social, and industrial institutions, we can see at once that the former remains a long way behind. This is due not only to the tendency of nations to devote a great deal more attention to the improvement of their physical and material resources than to the cultivation of their spiritual and intellectual powers, but also to the fact that existing educational institutions are not nearly so effective as they might well be without any appreciable increase of cost.
There are two defects in particular which we must deplore: (a) the failure to render the present school system an effective instrument in the cause of civic education; (b) the almost complete absence of any adequate provision for the continued training of boys and girls between the ages of 14 and 18 - for that part of the population which earns its daily bread through the practical work of commerce, handwork, industry, or agriculture.
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