of any
sexual perversion, this perversion soon becomes well known, thanks to
the good sense which prevails in the whole school.[13]

=Standard of Human Value in the Child.=--Our pedagogy has hitherto not
understood the true standard of human value. The social value of a
man is composed of two groups of factors; mental and bodily hereditary
dispositions, and faculties acquired by education and instruction.
Without sufficient hereditary dispositions, all efforts expended in
learning a certain subject will generally fail more or less. Without
instruction and without exercise, the best hereditary dispositions
will become atrophied, or will give indifferent results. But
hereditary dispositions not only influence the different domains of
knowledge, as the traditional pedagogues of our public schools seem to
admit, they also act on all the domains of human life, especially on
the mind. Good dispositions in the domains of will, sentiment,
judgment, imagination, perseverance, duty, accuracy, self-control, the
faculty of thinking logically and distinguishing the true from the
false, the faculty of combining aesthetic thoughts and sensations, all
constitute human values which are much superior to the faculty of
rapid assimilation or receptivity, and a good memory for words and
phrases.

Nevertheless these last faculties are almost the only ones which are
taken into consideration in our examinations, which decide nearly
everything in our schools and universities. Is it to be wondered at
that, by the aid of such a false standard, mediocrities whose brains
are only the echoes of their masters and those who bow to authority,
climb to the highest official positions, and even to most of those
positions which are not official?

With a good memory and the gift of rapid comprehension, one can obtain
everything, even without the protection of the clergy, freemasonry or
any other powerful association or personality (male or female)! If
they do not possess these natural secondary gifts, the most capable
men, even men of genius, are passed over or only obtain a situation by
circuitous routes and great efforts, after much loss of time.

In the Landerziehungsheime, Dr. Hermann-Lietz uses a scale intended to
estimate the psychological and social value of the pupils. First of
all the results obtained from two standards are measured:

(_a_) _Individual_: Does the actual value of work performed by the
pupil always correspond to his faculties?