Excerpt from High Schools in Louisiana and Tulane University That such a connecting link is necessary is readily demonstrable, if we attach any value to the Higher Education. Without going into details it may be said that all education that prepares for active life can be graded into Primary, Secondary, Collegiate and University education, the last including professional studies. These grades rest upon each other in regular sequence, and any attempt to evade or skip this natural succession is surely punished by an imperfect and fragmentary preparation, which shows itself in weakness somewhere in later life. The house must he built upon a rock or it will not stand. Education must rest upon a solid basis of thorough preparation, of early discipline, of a continuous advance, or it will lack that essential something which makes the all-round man so formidable to every opponent. The Primary School is for all the people. It teaches what no one can do without and yet be up to the full measure of citizenship. To know how to read, to write, to count, to calculate; to have at least a glimmering of the great world we live in and of the human family that inhabits it; this much, at least, society owes to every human being that it intends to hold responsible and expects to be useful. Even among the stolid Orientals we find this much knowledge conceded as a necessity, and much of it generally diffused among all classes. But upon those subject masses there is no demand except for obedience, while with us society continually calls upon its humblest members for the performance of duties that require much information that comes from instruction and a sound discretion that is the result of training only. But I am not here to argue for general education before this intelligent body committed to its service. It is the demand for High Schools - the need of this secondary grade of education - that I am now advocating. And in this cause, too, I may presume that my audience is generally in sympathy with my views; but, as it is almost a new feature in Louisiana, the discussion of it may not be unprofitable. And the first point that arises is, why should there be Public High Schools at all? 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.