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activities of the classroom but as a positive and
valuable addition to them. To enlarge upon this
would be to repeat what will be said in the
chapter on American Recreation.

3. Increasing effort to awaken the creative
side and to concentrate on that, rather than
on the acquisition of book-learning, as the chief
object to be aimed at in the education of the
young human being. This movement is most
apparent in the schools which deal with children
at the earliest stage, and least apparent in the
universities. Nevertheless I have found it win-
ning its way, though confronted with innumerable
obstacles, all over America, and I have met with
college presidents, mostly in the smaller colleges,
who are whole-hearted believers in " creative
education " and busy in adapting their curricula
to its requirements.

4. The growth, outside the schools and
colleges, of activities, movements and institutions
which are doing educational work of the utmost
value and doing it on a great scale and in a
multitude of ways. Many of them are in
forms familiar in Great Britain, such as the Boy
Scouts, the Girl Scouts (so called in America),
the Y.M.C.A., Boys* and Girls' Clubs, Arts and
Crafts Societies, " Leagues of Youth,'* and the
many forms of the Adult Education Movement.
But perhaps the most striking of them all is one
to which we have no exact analogy in Great
Britain—I refer to the " Community Centres "