The Public School and the Problem Child

U NLESS means of communication are found for opinions and ideas of creators among the human race, modern youth will adopt the religion of paganism and the moral codes of the daily press. These are the words of a woman wise in the wisdom of this world, one who has watched the dance of life from the vantage point of the court. While the statement quoted is more literary than scientific, the bald fact remains that two hundred thousand children under eighteen years of age passed through the courts of America in 1923. This army of unfortunates is generally spoken of as juvenile delinquents. The phrase has some unpleasant connotations; it seems to place the onus of guilt upon the child. Dr. H. H. Goddard has pointed out that delinquency is a failure to keep up with the requirements of the group, and that it is a social fault, not an individual one

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