Much maladjustment of the subject assignments is almost inevitable by a prescribed uniformity of the same content and the same treatment for all. The traditional methods and emphasis probably account for more disappointment and disgust than for valuable discipline. REFERENCES: 47. Maxwell, W.H. _A Quarter Century of Public School Development_, p. 88. 48. Van Denburg, J.K. _The Elimination of Pupils from Public Secondary Schools_, p. 183. 49. Annual Report of the U.S. Commissioner of Education, 1917. 50. Thorndike, E.L. _Educational Psychology_, Vol. II, Chap. I. 51. Swift, E.J. _Mind in the Making_, Chap. I. 52. Thorndike, E.L. _Elimination of Pupils from School_, U.S. Bull. 4, 1907. 53. Meredith, A.B. _Survey of the St. Louis Public Schools_, 1917, Vol. III, pp. 51, 40. CHAPTER VII WHAT TREATMENT IS SUGGESTED BY THE DIAGNOSIS OF THE FACTS OF FAILURE? It is not the purpose of this chapter to formulate conclusions that are arbitrary, fixed, or all-complete. There are definite reasons why that should not be attempted. The author merely undertakes to apply certain well recognized and widely accepted principles of education and of psychology, as among the more important elements recommending themselves to him in any endeavor to derive an adequate solution for the situation disclosed in the preceding chapters. The significance of those preceding chapters in reference to the failures of the high school pupils is not at all conditioned by this final chapter. Since as a problem of research the findings have now been presented, it is possible that others may find the basis therein for additional or different conclusions from the ones suggested here. For such persons Chapter VII need not be considered an inseparable or essentially integral part of this report on the field of the research. Indeed the purpose of this study will not have been served most fully until it has been made the subject of discussion and of criticism; and the treatment that is recommended here will not necessarily preclude other suggestions in the general effort to devise a solution or solutions that are the most satisfactory.