On the Future of our Educational Institutions

The reader from whom I expect something must possess three qualities: he must be calm and must read without haste; he must not be ever interposing his own personality and his own special 'culture'; and he must not expect as the ultimate results of his study of these pages that he will be presented with a set of new formule. I do not propose to furnish formule or new plans of study for Gymnasia or other schools; and I am much more inclined to admire the extraordinary power of those who are able to cover the whole distance between the depths of empiricism and the heights of special culture-problems, and who again descend to the level of the driest rules and the most neatly expressed formule.