Excerpt from The Teaching of High School MathematicsThe ideal of practicality has now entered the schools with telling force. It has been manifested in its demand for vocational training, and it is reconstructing the older cultural training by elim inations and additions. Its effects on the curri cula of liberal schools are quite obvious. Materials once accepted without question, when schools had a margin of energy, are now displaced by the pressure of new demands. These new demands force the teachers of a crowded curriculumto re consider every traditionally taught fact or process from the standpoint of its relative rather than its absolute worth. Without scorn for the value of any truth, Old disciplines disappear and new ones enter. The ends of life are the ends of the school, and what is social is becoming academic, thus freeing the scholastic from the contempt of men who work in the world at large.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.