ABSTRACT
This chapter examines dynamic interaction of scholastic and social change through which our 'ripple effect' is expanding. It discusses the relationships with parents and teachers, and one has noted the public disquiet that may arise from culture conflict or simply from the fact of surviving into a different world from that which became familiar during infancy. The length of children's schooling is usually taken as an index of civilization in a nation, and of prosperity in a family. 'A college education for your children' is a slogan that daily sells insurances, mortgages, and loans over the American radio. A college education to the age of twenty or twenty-two is a 'must' for all middle-class Americans, and all Americans are notionally middle-class. Recognition and recompense of all kinds depend heavily on the social connexions of the recipient, and on the social and economic complex into which he ventures forth.
