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This small volume is a reprint from the introductory pages of the thirtieth edition of the Handbook of Private Schools published by the author. The introduction has been reprinted for general circulation and represents the author's personal views on the statement which we hear from every side that the “world is mad”. He believes “there is nothing wrong with the world except what we have done with it, and there is nothing much wrong with the people except what has been done to them. Their hates and resentments result from lack of knowledge and understanding. They have been mis-led and mis-informed.”
It is the author's frankly put opinion that our confusion and chaos result from the administrators and teachers who run our schools and educational institutions. He believes that we are denying our youth “essential information for understanding the world they live in and have not prepared them to meet the difficulties of a constantly changing environment which was unknown to those who formed the principles on which they have been brought up.” In this little volume the author in simple, straight forward and, at times, most direct language scathingly attacks our press, our books, our schools and our professors. He would throw off the dead hand of the past which strangles our educational development and would revise our educational system to make it more plastic and more adaptable to our modern conditions of living.
The author's enthusiasm is most laudible, and while his writing is somewhat scattered, tending to be almost a type of free association, his fundamental concepts are sound and it is to be hoped that his voice from the wilderness penetrates the laissez-faire attitude of our halls of learning. You can only agree that the world is definitely muddled, and the author in striking at the muddlers in our academic fields is doing a definite service. This volume is, of course, preliminary. It is hoped that sometime the author will follow through with suggestions as to what sh