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Excerpt from A Comparison of Tendencies in Secondary Education in England, and the United States
The evidence is strong that if the ideals of democracy are to be realized, a comprehensive reorganization of secondary education is imperative at the present time. Educational aims and pro cedute will have to Change radically to meet the new conditions of life that are springing up everywhere. The present program of public education, says J. F. Bobbitt (17, Preface), were mainly formulated during the simpler conditions of the nineteenth Century. In detail it has improved. In fundamentals it is not greatly different. A program never designed for the present day has been inherited. Any inherited system, good for its time, when held to after its day, hampers social progress. It is not enough that the system, fundamentally unchanged in plan and purpose, be improved in detail. To do the nineteenth century task better than it was then done is not necessarily to do the twentieth century task.
To retain a system fundamentally unchanged in plan and purpose was exactly what the educators tended to do in the past.
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