Abstract
But if the aforementioned disregard of Eliot by men of letters may be justified, the slighting of Eliot's educational viewpoint by educational theorists is another question. Yet only a few educators have sought to determine the nature of his musings on educational matters.' As yet even these have not given much attention to what Eliot said about the aims of education. This oversight is particularly surprising since four of Eliot's ten essays on education are entitled, 'The Aims of Education'. References to educational aims, however, may be found long before these essays were published in 1950. Perhaps his first recorded allusion to the aims of education, or at least to the purposes of an educational institution, is in a poem he wrote for his graduation from Smith Academy, St. Louis, Missouri, in 1905. Undoubtedly he pondered the impact his Alma Mater had had on his class before he wrote:
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