ABSTRACT
Children do go to school camps, give parties for their teachers, and borrow books from the school library; they make friends, play informal games, and generally enjoy the society of their fellows; and all these activities make the school far more than just a fact-shop. If the pupil considers the matter in that light, he will feel some affection and warmth towards a place where so many interesting and enjoyable things happen to him. It is traditional to the Englishman that he takes a somewhat sentimental view of the places in which he spends his youth–his school, his college, whether the reality was enjoyable or not. The German school on which the summary in the appendix is based shows a progressive increase in the amount of subject-division: the youngest children have, apart from such activities as physical education and music, only a programme of basic foundation work.
