Inglis Lectures in Secondary EducationHarvard University Press, 1928 |
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Página 24 - ... any one of a dozen other extraneous motives, to take in and give out this information in recognizable word or paraphrase without seriously knowing or caring what it is all about. This is positively all that the school, and usually the college, requires, and of this it asks but a fraction — sixty per cent. For fear of evaporation the process is checked up at once — daily recitation, written review, monthly test, and term examination. These concluded, responsibility ceases, and 'credit' is...
Página 25 - ... power" disappears under such a regime. The knowledge that is power presupposes a mind actively at work and bent on the process of self-education. Such a mind requires the meanings and relations of its information, and finds little advancement in minute and disconnected masses of fact that must, from the nature of our system, stand neatly alone. 'Instead of developing an agency to attend, supply, and encourage a pupil who is using his own mind, we have done our best to devise a vehicle that will...
Página 23 - Convinced that knowledge is power, we have assumed that presenting information is identical with conferring knowledge, and have hastened to make broad this easy and royal road to an educated democracy. Information on almost any subject can easily be formulated into convenient units.
Página 24 - Information on almost any subject can easily be formulated into convenient units. And it is possible for a mind even of very limited powers, if socially docile, and inspired by filial duty, personal pride, commercial advantage, or any one of a dozen other extraneous motives, to take in and give out this information in recognizable word or paraphrase without seriously knowing or caring what it is all about. This is positively all that the school, and usually the college, requires, and of this it asks...
Página 13 - Every great social movement is an experiment in human adaptation. There is certainly no reason for discouragement in the fact that the lines along which we have been innovating are not altogether clear. We, like every generation before us, are experimenting with life, and the degree of perfection which we attain will depend quite as much on our courage to make progressive changes as on our critical insight with regard to our defects. If we need to renew our courage, we have only to look about us...
Página 15 - It is very easy to prescribe a curriculum for a boy who is stamped by heredity with an indelible mark, as is the European boy.
Página 39 - The teaching staff of any educational Institution is its most essential item of equipment. Providing suitable teachers for American High Schools is a task so colossal that our civilization is staggered in the efforts, to meet the demand. Our ability or inability to provide competent teachers will determine the success or failure of the American experiment of universal education.
Página 10 - That the American high school is accessible to all classes in society is a result of the fact that the desires of the common people come more readily to expression under the conditions of American life than under the rigid conditions of older social orders.
Página 21 - We might go on citing examples which show that high grades of intelligence and superior training are required in a hundred positions in society where formerly the professions were only three in number. How can anyone contemplate this expansion of intellectual interests in society without recognizing that the schools also must expand? The experiment of developing an enriched curriculum cannot, of course, be brought to complete success in a day, but the experiment must go forward. In some way or other...
Página 11 - ... never be misled by cynical critics into thinking that we are behind Europe. The day will certainly come when the French lycee will be free and when Germany will have, as Sweden now has, that which has been discussed long and vigorously, a high school open to all who complete the elementary curriculum.