Excerpt from Democracy's High School In February, 1913, I chanced to red three articles on the American high school which at once impressed me with their social insight. I asked their author, Principal William D. Lewis, of the William Penn High School, Philadelphia, to call on me. His enthusiastic vision of the immense possibilities for real democratic service to be performed by the public high schools of the country led me to say in The Outlook: "Every man and woman interested in boys and girls - and what man or woman is not? - ought to read what Principal Lewis himself says; for no brief sketch of mine will do even the remotest justice to the way in which he grips and expounds the vital need of our high school and college education - the need that it shall relate to life, and shall offer to each divergent soul the chance that soul needs to train itself, along its own lines, for useful citizenship, domestic and public, in this great seething, straining democracy of ours." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.