ll protect many young people and so
reduce the sum total of awful consequences. It will not prevent all
divorces and matrimonial disharmonies, but already the biological
teaching is helping and some day the social-ethical problems will be
understood and then most intelligent men and women will understand the
fundamental principles for permanent and harmonious monogamic marriage.
Finally, sex-education will not enforce universal sexual morality in
conformity with our accepted code, but it will help many individuals
through decisive battles with sex-instincts.

[Sidenote: Sex-Education and general education.]

Such are some of the lines along which extreme claims and hopes for
sex-education have been and are still being made. There is some truth
in each; in fact, there is more than enough to justify the present
movement for sex-education. To all those who see nothing in the
movement because it will not solve all the sex problems which have
created a demand for special instruction, we may reply by simply
pointing to the fact that general education makes some better and more
efficient citizens, but many times it fails to give desirable results.
We believe in general education because it aims to offer all
individuals help in preparation for more efficient life, although it
succeeds only in part. Likewise, we should stand for the instruction of
all young people in matters concerning sex because it is certain that
such knowledge will function completely in many lives and will work
appreciable good in many others.

[Sidenote: A permanent and essential part of education.]

I cannot believe that sex-education is one of the long line of modern
educational fads which quickly pass their day, for no other phase of
education so closely touches life. History and geography and even a
large part of the "three Rs" may be of little use in the lives of
numerous people, but sex-education deals with problems which the normal
human life cannot possibly avoid and which each individual must be
prepared to solve for himself. Therefore, we may confidently assert
that instruction concerning the most important aspects of sex processes
and relationships will soon be recognized as an absolutely necessary
part of a rational and efficient scheme for the education of young
people.

[Sidenote: The never-ending problem of good and evil.]

The larger sex-education is sure to have a permanent place in the
never-ending work of preparing coming generati