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Its " fanaticism for education " is manifested in avaried system of education, including State andChurch schools, primary, secondary, and highschools and universities, experimental schools ofevery sort, varying from State to State, andcollege to college, and nevertheless pervaded bythe same ideals and standards. The student whois at the same time a handworker (Werkstudent )is a universal phenomenon, e.g. the combinationof the roles of student and waitress is verycommon. I was told in one of the University cities of the Western States : " Good progress inthe new buildings round our campus is guaranteedby the fact that there are many builders andcarpenters among this term's new students."California with a population of three millions,counts some thirty thousand University students.The student seeks from the University , first of all,training for his vocation : hence the return of somany into commerce, industry and manual labour.In the second place he seeks to acquire a generalculture with a view to the better discharge of hisduties as citizen and the better employment of hisleisure. If one adds that university students cometo a large extent from working class homes (it isfor instance computed that 80 per cent, of the sonsand daughters of the organised railway workersattend universities) one begins to realise how widea domain has been won to cultural unity. How-ever we Europeans estimate all this it is at any ratebeyond dispute that the ideal of democracydemands some sort of equalisation of the differ-ent levels of education, the production of a