CHAPTER XVIII.

AUTOMATIC CONTRASTED WITH SCIENTIFIC EDUCATION.

The Past tyrannizes over the Present by Interposing the Stolid Resistance of Habit. -- Habits of Thought like Habits of the Body become Automatic. -- There is much Freedom of Speech but very little Freedom of Thought: Habit, Tradition, and Reverence for Antiquity forbid it. -- The Schools educate Automatically. -- A glaring Defect of the Schools shown by Mr. John S. Clark, of Boston. -- The Automatic Character of the Popular System of Education shown by the Quincy (Mass.) Experiment. -- Several Intelligent Opinions to the same Effect. -- The Public Schools as an Industrial Agency a Failure. -- A Conclusive Evidence of the Automatic and Superficial Character of prevailing Methods of Education in the Schools of a large City. -- The Views of Colonel Francis W. Parker. -- Scientific Education is found in the Kindergarten and the Manual-training School. -- “The Cultivation of Familiarity betwixt the Mind and Things.” 191