The Basic Duties of a Secondary School

Abstract

For many years—as any old student of his will re member—Thomas H. Briggs hammered away at his "golden rule" for education. Characteristic of the man in its simplicity, it was his ultimate definition of the function of a school. What follows here is an early statement of that "rule." It is excerpted from The Classroom Teacher, Volume X, published in 1929. In these days of agitation over "relevance," it is as timely as it was then.