On the Firing Line in Education

"On the Firing Line in Education" by Adoniram Judson Ladd is a book about education, written in the early 1900s, that looks closely at what was happening in schools at that time. The author uses his experience as a professor to talk about ways education needed to change to keep up with the times after World War I. Ladd believed that schools needed to do more than just teach, they also needed to help kids grow into good people who were ready to deal with the real world. The book starts by pointing out problems like students not being able to read well and not being healthy. Ladd wanted to push for big improvements, so education could truly prepare young people for the future.