ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the appreciations by which the secondary school should convey to its students. The appreciations are an appreciation of the ego-transcending quality of a worthy life; an appreciation of the values of persistence and of the seeing of relationships. It includes sense for the kinship between the theoretical and practical life; the courage of self-assurance; and desire for a liberal or general education. The chapter presents three final questions: the first, the age levels on which the ideal high school and the various degrees of differentiation should begin; the second, the selection of the pupils according to their potential talents; and the third, the compatibility of American school with the democratic ideal of social justice. The public education of modem countries is mass education. If mass education creates only a mass man absorbed in mass feelings and unable to maintain his individuality against leveling influence, then mass education is not the way toward civilization but toward its end.
