AND ETHICAL RECORD EIGHTEENTH SERIES PHILADELPHIA THE AMERICAN ETHICAL UNION, 1415 LOCUST STREET 1911. PAGE ELLIOTT, JOHN LOVEJOY. Moral Instruction in the Ethical ...113, 139 ELLIOTT, JOHN LOVEJOY. Ethical Lessons in the Third and 249 GOULD, F. J. Moral Education League 247 MOSKOWITZ, HENRY. The Moral Challenge of the Industrial 223 NEUMAN, HENRY. Professor Foerster on Moral Education.. 13 SPENCER, ANNA GARLIN. The Need for Schools of Ethics.. 1 SPENCER, ANNA GARLIN. Report of Summer School of Ethics 23 SPILLER, GUSTAV. Obstacles to Friendliness Between Dif- ferent Races 215 CONSTITUTION OF THE AMERICAN ETHICAL UNION DEDICATION OF THE MEETING HOUSE OF THE NEW YORK So-.... THE NEED FOR SCHOOLS OF ETHICS BY ANNA GARLIN SPENCER. An address delivered at the Summer School of Ethics, held under the auspices of the American Ethical Union at Madison, Wis. DR. NICHOLAS MURRAY BUTLER has said that "for forty years education in the United States has been seen to be a process in the spiritual evolution of the race." During the last hundred years the ideals of education have changed, from the old conception of the duty of making each generation a copy of the best of the past, to the new conception of the duty of developing personal power in each human being to the end that race progress may be achieved and each generation excel the last. During the last hundred years the scope of education has also changed radically from the effort to fit a few masters and leaders of the race for their function, to the effort to fit all normal children and youth for intelligent share in a democratic community life. During the last hundred years the content of education has also radically changed from a few studies deemed the sole constituents of "culture" and "learning" to the wide range of curriculum that now makes the opportunity and almost the despair of teachers. During the last hundred years, also, the method of education has changed from the memory-drill of constant repetition to the laboratory work, the practical demonstration, the appeal to original thought, initiative and choice. All these most vital changes have come about in response to two great movements,-of democracy in government |