a school by themselves, under the care of men and women who know
the law of mental suggestion.

"Quiet, loving, wholesome rules, followed day after day and month after
month, would bring these children out into the light of self-control and
concentration. The hurried, crowding, exciting methods of the public
schools are disastrous to fully half of the unformed minds sent into the
intellectual maelstrom which America provides under the name of Public
Schools.

"For the well-born, normal-minded, healthy-bodied child, who has wise and
careful guardians or parents to assist in his mental guidance, the public
school forms a good basis on which to build an education. For the average
American child of excitable nerves and precocious tendencies, it is like
deep surf swimming for the inexperienced and adventurous bather.

"The great foundation of education--character--is not taught in the public
schools. There is no systematized process of developing a child's power of
concentration; there is not time for this in the cramming process now in
vogue and with the enormous pressure placed on teachers. No teacher can do
justice to more than fifteen children through the school hours. In many of
our public schools there are fifty and sixty children under one instructor.
This is fatal to the nervous system of the teacher and deprives the pupils
of that personal sympathy which is of such vital importance."

Luther Burbank, the famous California horticulturist, declares that the
great object and aim of his life is to apply to the training of children
those scientific ideas which he has so successfully employed in working
transformation in plant life.

In an editorial, entitled, "Teaching Health," the _New York Globe_ states,
"Anatomy and physiology are reasonably exact sciences, and nine-tenths of
the hygienic abuses against which the doctors are preaching would be
prevented if the laity had an elementary knowledge of physiology. Such an
educational reform could be carried out without causing any clash whatever
between the warring medical sects." [Page 25]

William D. Lewis, Principal of the William Penn School, Philadelphia, in an
article entitled: "The High School and the Girl," in a recent issue of the
_Saturday Evening Post_, wrote in part as follows:

... "The first thing that society wants of our girl is good health. This is
the first essential for her efficient service and personal happiness in
shop, office, store, school or h