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3. But a greater agency for developing mental inefficiencies is the School. Wrong methods of teaching, wrong ideals of education, haste to attain results, bad policy as seen in crowding the young mind with useless knowledge—these have a direct effect in the atrophy of the reasoning powers, especially the relation between cause and effect. In other words what is popularly known as the sense of the “why and wherefore” has no chance of development in the rush for acquiring information and the effort to remember it for examination purposes. Mental powers of every kind frequently suffer injury on account of faulty school curricula. We make this statement not only on the grounds just stated, but because a large number of pupils attribute their mind wandering, and defective memories, to the bad mental habits fostered by modern school methods.

Of course the effect is not the same in every case. Scores of scholars suffer no conscious drawbacks from the crowded syllabus of the present day school; they prosper intellectually in spite of everything. But a certain percentage inevitably sustain loss, all the more pronounced when there is added the natural carelessness and indifference of youth to serious tasks.