There have not been any essential modifications recently in the programs and methods of the maternal and elementary schools. Increasing attention is, however, being given to the prolongation of the benefits of elementary education by requiring adolescents to attend a public or a private school to the age of fourteen, instead of thirteen as at present, and thereafter to continue up to the age of eighteen a certain number of courses that would enable them to conserve and extend the knowledge acquired. In other words, it is proposed to establish what is usually called post-elementary education.

In the manual training work of the high school, it is the purpose to give such an insight into modern industrial processes as is possible within the limitations of school time. With this object in view, the methods pursued are as near as possible identical with those of the best practice, and the projects selected represent in all cases typical and important constructions from the technical standpoint.

In the lower grades of the elementary school, before the pupil is able to make for himself connections between the various conventional elements of instruction, it would appear essential to present the different branches of knowledge in natural relations one to the other.

From the standpoint of evolution, education "is the adaptation of a person, a self-conscious being, to environment, and the development of capacity in a person to modify or control that environment." iThis environment on the one side is the physical world with its facts and forces, on the other that vast complex evolved through human thought and feeling which we call civilization.

Specific projects as part of a plan of hand work are described.

All work in the High School is given in studios or laboratories by special instructors.

One of the persistent illusions that has appeared in the organization of much of our manual-training work in the lower grades is the idea that some particular series of operations when arranged in a carefully graded "course" provides sufficient opportunities in itself, and is by its nature better fitted than any other vehicle, to meet the needs of each special grade.