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: II THE PECULIAR FUNCTIONS OF THE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL THE FUNCTIONS OF EDUCATION It is platitudinous in the extreme to say that the test of an educational institution is the extent to which it realizes the ultimate aims of education. While the statements of ultimate aims extant in the educational world are numberless and protean, the nature of many recent expressions is fairly well exemplified in the statement of " main objectives " made by the Com mission on the Reorganization of Secondary Educatioi of the National Education Association.1 For our uses this statement is somewhat more appropriate than any other, since it is not the conception of ultimate aims held by an individual, but one which has had the endorsement of a group of educational leaders. It may be said, therefore, to be more representative of current thought and more nearly authoritative. This committee regards the following as the main objectives ', of education: (i) health, (2) command of the fundamental processes, (3) worthy home membership, 1 Cardinal Principles of Secondary Education, U. S. Rrreau of Education Bulletin, 1918, No. 35. State- (4) vocation, (5) citizenship, (6) worthy use of leisure, and (7) ethical character. As the import of each of these categories is readily apparent, it is unnecessary to amplify. Because the third, fifth, and seventh of these objectives may, with little doubt, be comprehended by the term " social-civic " when broadly conceived, these seven objectives will, for convenience in subsequent discussion, be reduced to five. The fulfilment of these aims, then, being the role of education, it is the function of the institution upon which we are focussing attention in this volume, the junior high school, to make its contribution to the achievement of this .end. It must ...