There is no general agreement about what a young person should learn, either in relation to more
virtue or to success in life. The existing practice is perplexing; no one knows on what we should
proceed—should the useful in life, or should virtue, or should the higher knowledge, be the aim of
our training; all three opinions have been entertained. Again, about the means there is no agreement;
for different persons, starting with different ideas about the nature of virtue, naturally disagree about
the practice of it. There can be no doubt that children should be taught those useful things which
are really necessary.... (Jewett & Hutcher, 1964, p. 268)