The American Public School.

Discusses the role played by religious education in American public schools. Significance of learning was to render it a proper adornment for people and to add the amenities the humanities to the discipline of divinity which had prevailed in the schools; Fact that in Protestant countries the school remained for a very long time an ecclesiastical institution, designed to train the clergy in the arts of salvation; Discussion of various objectives of education in the U.S.; Report that recently the course of public education, the curricula and order of instruction in the schools were determined by traditional objectives; View of the author that the courses of study absorb the larger proportion of the attention of the teachers and the energies of the negligible proportion of the pupils who enter college.