ABSTRACT
The story of the disintegration of Protestant education has thus far been told in personal terms. There were three characters, a hero, a villain, and a victim—Comenius, Locke, and Arnold. All three of these men were pious Christians. It does not explain or interpret. Only as experiences and situations are generalized by ideas and principles does their meaning become usable in dealing with other situations and experiences. The Christian culture was, in its Protestant form, destroying itself. And Locke's mind was of the pliable type which responded with great sensitiveness to all the forces which played upon it. It was that mental irresponsibility, that destruction of intellectual comradeship, that logical atomism, which had broken down the Protestant culture, had made impossible the education of the English people. Education becomes deeply vocational in intention. If Locke's moral dualism is accepted, then, at one stroke, both church and state are found to be unfitted to take charge of education as a whole.
