ABSTRACT
The Dutch population of New Amsterdam started a school system in the year 1621. The responsibility for the moral and intellectual standards, for the practical conditions, and for the financial liabilities incurred by every school, rests immediately with the community, which has to pay for their support, and whose children are to derive advantage. In America no school diploma carries officially any privilege at all. The American public school is co-educational. Co-education means theoretically that boys and girls are entitled to common education, but practically it means that boys are also tolerated. It is certain that the enormous school budgets of the large cities offer the possibility for a deplorable plundering of the public treasury, when it is a question of buying new land for school-houses, of closing building contracts, or of introducing certain text-books.
