This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 Excerpt: ...determine very definitely which knowledges, which habits, which skills, and what degree of each, may be left safely to the incidental selection of the activities themselves and which must be provided for systematically by special training. There are, however, other considerations whose possible' bearings on our problem ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 Excerpt: ...determine very definitely which knowledges, which habits, which skills, and what degree of each, may be left safely to the incidental selection of the activities themselves and which must be provided for systematically by special training. There are, however, other considerations whose possible' bearings on our problem need to be kept in mind. Our civilization is the product of an age-long evolution in which the best solutions for our common problems have been slowly and labori-ously built up by the master minds of the ages. The basic func-l tion of the school is to transmit this social inheritance to the oncoming generation. Other things being equal, the more efficiently! this duty is discharged, the greater will be the contribution t the social progress which the new generation will make. From this point of view the school must not only see to it that the child acquires the fundamental skills, but also that he wastes no time in doing so. If compulsory drill exercises under expert teaching will short-circuit the slow evolutionary development which comes from the use of skill in purposeful activity, then not to drill a child is to handicap both him and society. Here, too, unfortunately, we can reach at present no certain conclusion; for it may be that the concomitant and accessory effects of the evolutionary development are of more value than the efficiency which the drill method might yield. For instance, if drill necessarily tended to the suppression of personality, and purposeful activity to its development and expansion, we could not afford to achieve efficiency by drill methods. The crucial experiment on this point has yet to be made. One of the important considerations often overlooked is that no two children are exactly alike or learn in exactly the ...
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