Excerpt from Latin and Greek in American Education: With Symposia on the Value of Humanistic Studies In 1909 - 10 the total attendance in public and private high schools and academies was boys and girls) in public high schools, and boys and girls) in schools of private support. In the decade 1900 to 1910 the population of the continental United States increased about 21 per cent; the enrolment in public high schools more than 60 per cent. The enrolment reported in public high schools in 1909 - 10 was more than four and one-half times as great as that reported twenty one years earlier, in 1889 - 90. The phenomenal growth of the public high schools is significant from several points Of view. The causes to Which it is due cannot even be enumerated here; but of immediate bearing upon our subject is the consequence that the drain upon the resources of taxpayers occa sioned by the necessity of providing buildings, equip ment, and instruction to meet unanticipated demands has been so great as to retard the normal increase in the compensation of teachers, which should keep pace with the increase in the cost of living and of professional preparation. The inadequacy Of compensation has driven from the high schools many of the strongest men on the staff Of instruction, Who have been forced to abandon teaching for less congenial but more lucrative pursuits; and it tends to deter young men of promise from entering the profession. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.