ABSTRACT
The rapid growth of a pushing and rampant nation imposed upon the teachers the task of building a common high school upon the common elementary school, while the other nations reserved their secondary schools for only 1 to 3 per cent of their adolescents. In addition, American schools of education have been swept by a quantitative psychology. This psychology feels uncomfortable in the face of mental phenomena which refuse to be caught in the network of tests and numbers. Again the school needs the advice of a psychology which is experimental, but tries at the same time to understand the more comprehensive life conditions and concerns of man. The best form of schooling which uses primarily the manipulative and sensuous talents of young people for an all-round education, rather than simply for skill, has not yet been discovered. A school community needs contact with the outer world in order to keep alive.
