om sixteen to
twenty-four, when home-making instincts are waking and strongest. We have
15,000,000 young people of these ages in no schools, and eligible for such
instruction. All state boards of education were recently petitioned by the
American Association for Study and Prevention of Infant Mortality to urge
the appointment of commissions on continuation schools of home-making, to
investigate conditions and needs in their respective states and to report
plans for meeting them effectively through such continuation schools or
classes."

DIFFICULTY IN DEVISING A SATISFACTORY EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM.--It will be
observed that each of these authoritative writers criticises the system of
education now in vogue. The criticism is not, nor could it justly be,
specialized. It is simply an expression, from different viewpoints, of the
feeling that we are not doing ourselves justice as yet, we are groping
after something better. It may be, as I have previously stated, that no[28]
satisfactory system of education will be evolved until the laws of kindred
sciences, which have organic relationship to what we understand as
education, are fixed and better understood. We are just beginning to
appreciate the true meaning of environment. We know little about heredity,
but enough to appreciate its vital importance. Psychology is a realm of
much hope, but we have only tasted of its surface promise and know little
of the mysteries it may unfold. Eugenics, the infant giant of science,
promises to establish the race on an enduring foundation. These sciences
have laws which we do not yet understand; they relate to that part of human
evolution which mind dominates. The quality of the mind's dominion depends
upon the mind's education and environment, and since the laws of these
sciences, upon which a perfect system of education depends, have not been
revealed, it is quite evident that all past systems of education have been
more or less deficient. It is further evident that evolution has suffered
as a result of the mind's imperfect education,--a condition that is
manifest all around us.

It must be appreciated, however, that we are discussing a large subject. If
we understood all there is to know about environment; if we knew the laws
of heredity, and psychology, and eugenics, and then could apply them, and
educate the product of this combination of forces, we would be very near to
the super-man. One must have a sober mental horizon to evolve the pic