Excerpt from Report on Continuation SchoolsThe Continuation School to be really effective must deal with large numbers. It is not made an integral part of the State system simply that the few with ambition to excel in their calling or with a desire for self-improvement may have the opportunity to gratify their wishes. The reason is a much wider and deeper one. The Continuation School arises rather out of the utter inadequacy of any education which terminates at 14 years of age to fit the youth of the country either for the demands that are now made upon them under the existing arrangement of industry, or for the social and civic demands that are made upon them as members of a democratic State. It is felt that the State cannot afford to leave a large percentage of its population with no more instruction and training and preparation for the responsibilities of life than is got in the Primary School, with the addition only of the unorganised and haphazard training that is picked up in the ordinary avenues of industry and business. The State cannot afford merely to cater for the few whose commercial or trade ambitions lead them to self improvement, while the many receive nothing more than the foundation laid in the elementary school. Commercial considerations demand more than this. Industrial conditions demand more. Above all, the need for an intelligent citizenship demands more.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.