But if there is honour for failure what shall be the guerdon of success?
What tribute shall we pay to those who have fought and won?
For there are some who have fought and won.
FOOTNOTES: [6] It must be clearly understood that throughout this chapter the school that I have in mind is one for "older children" only.

Whatever may be the defects of the elementary infant schools, an excessive regard for outward and visible results is not one of them.

Exemption from the pressure of a formal external examination has meant much more to them than to the schools for older children; and the atmosphere of the good infant schools is, in consequence, freer, happier, more recreative, and more truly educative than that of the upper schools of equivalent merit.

And when we compare grade with grade, we find that the superiority of the elementary infant schools is still more pronounced.

The "Great Public Schools," and the costly preparatory schools that lead up to them, may or may not be worthy of their high reputation; but as regards facilities for the education (in school) of their "infants," the "classes" are unquestionably much less fortunate than the "masses." [7] Not long ago I happened to enter the Boys' Department of an urban Church School at about 9.15 a.m.The Headmaster was sitting at his desk, drawing up schemes of "secular" work.