160 MY AMERICAN FRIENDS

from that connoted by the worship of the almighty
dollar. This give-and-take between the material
and the spiritual, if not exactly " equal and
opposite/* is nevertheless a fact to be noted by
those who study the relations between the money
interest and the education of America. The
money has come out of " business/' to be sure,
and though most of its results in education flow
back to the source from which the money came
there is generally a residue left over for the things
of the spirit, A " School of Business Adminis-
tration " placed in the midst of a university
originally founded to promote the glory of God
will get an occasional gleam of heavenly light
from the contact, while the promoters of God's
glory, on their side, may ^ become, reciprocally,
somewhat less unbusinesslike in the pursuit of
their ideals. In this way both parties grow
wiser by their association; education becoming
more practical, while the Mammon of Un-
righteousness gets interested in the things of the
spirit through the " friendship " offered it by the
other side. Such is the give-and-take.

It is as true of American education as it is of
British that the general character of it is derived
from the top, that is, from the universities.
Though American standards differ considerably
from British the two agree essentially in being
" college born." There, as here, the end and
aim of education from first to last is the college
degree, There, as here, what the child learns