ABSTRACT
During the last twenty years this principle has taken a wider range. In the secondary schools a theory of "Selfgovernment" has been expounded, originating curiously enough in a social milieu at the opposite pole to that in which the prefect system took its rise. It was from an experiment conducted in Dorset by the American psychologist, Mr. Homer Lane (121) that the author of An Adventure in Education
conceived the idea of managing the discipline of a classroom by the aid of the boys themselves: the record of Mr.
