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: for the purpose of making our algebra, German, or Latin of benefit to them. We are to break away from the traditional type of a study-centered high school. We are a person-centered high school. The person is the one we are teaching. We are responsible for the success of the student. That is chiefly what we are put here for. (10: 585) While it is easy to point out certain fallacies and exaggerations in this quotation, it remains in general as a significant formulation of a policy worked out by a high-school principal and his teachers to adapt the instruction in their school to the needs of all of the pupils who attend it. Antithesis between liberal and vocational purposes. — The immediately preceding discussion was intended to bring out the contrast between the aristocratic, or selective, purposes which formerly prevailed in secondary education and the democratic purposes which are coming to prevail. The other contrast (mentioned above on page 7) is between the conception of liberal purposes and that of vocational purposes. Ordinarily it is assumed that there is some conflict between these two, and the conservative supporters of the old idea of a liberal education deprecate the tendency to introduce and emphasize studies which are related to present-day economic needs. Progressive revision of meaning of a liberal education. — The insistence of the conservatives upon the old idea of a liberal education as necessarily a classical or literary one has led advocates of a broader secondary education to reformulate the definition of a liberal education in such a way as to justify the newer tendencies and thus to disarm the conservatives by depriving them of their chief symbol, or badge, of pretended superiority. One of the best examples of this revision is the following quotation...