ABSTRACT
The conflict in a single person's emotions is nowadays often magnified in the affairs of a nation. At the heart of the American public schools is the conscious purpose of welcoming all comers to the American way of life, and of developing in each person not only first-class citizenship but the fullest growth of individual personality. A new political status, like a new technology, is a way of life or a 'culture'. In European cultures, the various subcultures or sectional points of view have tended to belong to certain classes or to particular levels of education, which have specialized in them as occupations or as prerogatives. Newly independent communities can pick and choose between the various cultural legacies left available for selection; but they are also faced with the difficult responsibility of co-ordinating them in a new, local synthesis for long-term development.
