“Education,” said Dr. John G. Hibben, former president of Princeton University, “is the ability to meet life’s situations.” If by the time you have finished reading the first three chapters of this book—if you aren’t then a little better equipped to meet life’s situations—then I shall consider this book to be a total failure so far as you are concerned. For “the great aim of education,” said Herbert Spencer, the English sociologist and philosopher, “is not knowledge but action.” And this is an action book.
