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3. Show from Milton”s program of studies that he represents a transition
type, and also that his program contains the nucleus of the more modern
studies of the secondary school.

8. Show that Mann”s reasoning as to the strength of the Prussian school
system (281) was thoroughly sound.

[Illustration: FIG. 180 COUNT OF CAVOUR (1810-61)]

In 1517 Luther nailed his theses to the church door in Wittenberg. The
Church took alarm and attempted to crush him, and soon the greatest
contest since the conflict between paganism and Christianity was on.
Within half a century all northern lands had been lost to the ancient
Church (see map, p. 296); the first successful challenge of its authority
during its long history.

those who work in the shop and the office and on the farm, vocational
education tends to correct many of the evils of modern industrial life
Besides further democratizing education by extending its advantages to
those who work in the shop and the office and on the farm, vocational
education tends to correct many of the evils of modern industrial life. It
puts the worker in possession of a great body of scientific knowledge
relating to his work which shops and offices cannot give, and it keeps
him, for several years after he becomes a wage earner and at a very
impressionable period of his life, under the directing care of the school.
It thus tends ‘to counteract the specialization and routine of the
workshop, which wears out his body before nature has completed its
development in form and power, blunts the intelligence which the school
had tried to awaken, shrivels up his heart and imagination, and destroys
his spirit of work.’