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To what extent does the training of the capacities exercised by school subjects carry over to capacities concerned in other school subjects, and especially to the capacities involved in the usual activities of life? This question brings the problem of transference of training directly face to face with the issues of education and is the form in which it is usually concerned in discussions of mental discipline. It is of more special concern to the liberal phase of education in the high school and the college for the reason that the subjects taught in the elementary school, in the vocational courses in the high school, and in the professional courses in the university are directly pertinent to the common needs of life or to the various occupations and professions. Most of the discussion has, therefore, centered about the training value to be derived from the traditional academic work of the high school and the college. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)