Excerpt from Report of the Committee of the Indiana Town and City Superintendents' Association on Course of Study in the Public High Schools, 1899 The organization of the public high school must be determined by the nature of the field of education which it occupies, rather than by the character of its relations to other factors of the school system. The high school must take cognizance of the elemen; tary school on the one hand and of the college on the other, but. Its primary consideration is its function as providing for a fairly de fined stage of culture. The high school has certain functions aris ing from its connection with other grades of school work. It owes to the elementary school the inspiration and finish that come of close correlation of the work of the grades and of the high school. It must prepare young men and women for college. But these functions are entirely secondary to the nurture of youth per se. It is important that the high school recognize its position as occupying a field of education distinctively its own, having a function vitally different from that of elementary school and college. It must con cern itself with the right occupation of this field. It will then be in position to establish proper relations with other institutions. The importance of this definition of province, and of organization of the work of the high school in harmony therewith, can not be too much emphasized. In the evolution of the high school it has in some communities served only as a preparatory school to a higher institution of learning to which it was accredited, and in others merely as a continuation in organization and method of the instruc tion of the elementary school. This subordination in organization and method to the schools above and below is too prevalent at the present time. There is need of better definition of the province of the high school as a basis for determination of courses of study and methods of teaching. 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.