EDUCATION 167

" there is joy in heaven over one sinner who
repenteth more than over ninety and nine just
persons who need no repentance "—or think they
need none.

Of the changes actually in process four have
struck me chiefly. ^ I have not found them every-
where, nor always at the same level of excellence.
But I have found them sufBciently often and in a
quality good enough to act as pointers to the
direction in which advance is taking place.

1. The large, but still inadequate, place
assigned to physical education. A professor of
Physical Education is to be found in almost
every college, and the practice of it is almost
universal in the public schools. In many places
it is still under the domination of competitive
athletics, or crude gymnastic methods, and has
far to go before it reaches the point of excellence
to which the best practice of Europe has brought
it, the point of genuine co-ordination with mental
culture. In others, not so many, but still
numerous, I have found it fully advanced. The
significant thing is that the importance of physical
education is now recognized, not only by experts
but by the authorities which govern the schools
and colleges, as an absolutely essential element of
anything worthy to be called education.

2. An increasing tendency to bring the play
side of school or college life info the field of
education proper, the activities of play-time
being regarded not as a mere relief from the