The Architect & engineer of California and the Pacific Coast . THE ARCHITECT AXD EXGIXEER 43. CLARK SCHOOL. ST. LOVIS. B. Inner, Architcil acquired and retainedif the child is led in-stead of being driven,and even more re-cently the practicehas been to curtaileven leadership andto substitute the pu-pils initiative aidedby the teachers sug-gestion. It is notour business here torenew the debate asto the wisdom ofthese changes, butmerely to take noteof the fact that, forbetter or for worse, the birch rod and what have been aptly termed lockstep methods of education are In their


The Architect & engineer of California and the Pacific Coast . THE ARCHITECT AXD EXGIXEER 43. CLARK SCHOOL. ST. LOVIS. B. Inner, Architcil acquired and retainedif the child is led in-stead of being driven,and even more re-cently the practicehas been to curtaileven leadership andto substitute the pu-pils initiative aidedby the teachers sug-gestion. It is notour business here torenew the debate asto the wisdom ofthese changes, butmerely to take noteof the fact that, forbetter or for worse, the birch rod and what have been aptly termed lockstep methods of education are In their place have come a realeffort to understand the working of the childs min<l and an admissionthat the most permanent and valuable effects u])on mind anil charactercome unccjnsciously from within rather tiian forcibly from without. Another radical change from the old order is seen in the increasingnumber and completeness of vocational courses, which have fur theirobject the fitting of children to earn a living immediately upon leavingschool. This change is in some respects of a (piite opp


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