To be the bridge from the past with its cripples; to the future with its perfect men and women--that should be the function of the college.

So long as men live for an by the exercise of specialized functions only, so long will society be chaos. The surgeon who sees all life in terms of physical derangements, the merchant who lives in a world of leather or of cheese, the artist who knows nothing but tone or color, the savant without capacity for action--these men lack the ability for coordination which makes human relations intelligible and intelligent. Business men frequently are so helpless in fields other than their own, that they cannot choose service intelligently; professional men generally are slacking in perception of educational principles, that the only distinctions they can make are between conservatism, which they may consider to be safety or stupidity, and innovation, which to them may be synonymous either with progress or with dangerous radicalism. Finer distinctions they frequently seem incapable of. . .

We are becoming a nation of specialists, each man an authority in his own little corner, and ignorant of the relations of life as a whole. We assume that for every subject there is a specialist, and that specialists can make up life. But social life consists, not only of specialization, but also of coordination. Only to the extent that all these functions work together with mutual understanding and with unity of purpose, can there be stability or effectiveness in human relations.

There are tow main undertaking that give promise of securing this element of coordination, and those undertakings constitute the essence of the Antioch Plan. First, t all the specialized calling sin which men have striven for excellence, we are adding another--the profession of coordination. The professional course we give at Antioch all centre themselves in this--the development of ability to gather together the various tangled threads of forces, conditions, and affairs which make up the elements of any potential human accomplishment, and to weave them into a perfect fabric, showing the texture and design of a preconceived play--that is what we mean when we speak of training the manager, the entrepreneur, the proprietor. Despite all the specialized training of all our schools, the world always has paid its highest tributes to the coordinator,--whether he be King, philosopher or merchant,--and it always will. . .