Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II. THE ARTISAN SCHOOL: ITS PLACE AND FUNCTION. The educational needs of a town can be effectively met only by an organization of educative institutions, designed to serve the needs of each great class of its inhabitants. An inefficient organization—whether in the kinds of schools provided or in the internal working of each— means wasteland that saddest and most sinful of all wastes which throws a large number of youths on the world, ill-prepared to do the work the world demands of them. One principle, and one principle only, should inspire our authorities in every part of their educational administration. Every school—primary or secondary— should do all in its power to prepare its pupils to enter with fully developed faculties on the work of manhood. Manhood is a broad term. It covers the whole aim of every kind of education for boys. The very breadth of its meaning raises the question of its content in relation to each kind of school. All must agree, however, that its meaning must have reference to the conditions of modern life. We cannot set the clock back even if we would. Life has to be faced as it is. Historians and philosophers may discuss, if they wish, classical and mediaeval conceptions of manhood, but what most concerns us is the type of manhood that will be most effective in carrying on the work of modern life. Modern life presents to us a most confusing complexity. The activities man may be engaged in are as many andvaried as the most fanciful imagination can desire, and demand the development of a many-sided interest and power. Three classes of activities, however, stand out preeminently as being those in which every man should engage if he is to realize his potential manhood with any fulness. These are:— 1. The activities of a man's individual li...