Excerpt from The High School: A Study of Origins and Tendencies

The high school is coming into its own. Secondary edu cation has begun lately to assume a prominence and to have a recognized importance such as would be suggested by the priority of its development.

As the painstaking historical survey in the following chap ters makes clear, formal secondary education was developed ages before any need for organized elementary education arose. The latter came later as a necessity following the development of written language. Such a historical study of secondary education is of value because it is a study of a great development, an examination of secondary edu cation as au important and interesting sociological phenom enon. It is, besides, a practical investigation of the varied applications of means to ends that have been developed in each of the epochs of secondary education. It presents a study of a pivotal institution and of its relations to different times and conditions.

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