Conclusions and Recommendations more challenging, inspiring, and attractive, it will tend to draw persons of mediocre mentality ; but until it does succeed in drawing a larger number of capable minds, it will tend to lack challenge, inspiration, and attractiveness . 2. Since the state exercises no power of conscripting persons for the profession of teaching, it
can bring the more gifted into the service only by improving the conditions and rewards of work and by making the work worthy of the highest qualities of mind and character potential in humanity. But the state can be expected to move in this direction only in response to pressure arising from some group or groups of citizens . 3. If the Gordian knot is to be cut, it will probably be cut by the more active spirits in the profession struggling for better conditions of work, formulating a more challenging and inspiring conception of teaching and carrying the argument intelligently and persuasively to the public . At this point the question of selection merges into the question of training . Io6