The Children: Some Educational Problems

The end of education is, as we have seen, the securing of the future social efficiency of the rising generation, and the method in every case is through the evoking of the reaso...

"A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world. He that has these two has little more to wish for, and he that wants either of them...

The problems as to the end or ends at which our educational agencies should aim in the training and instruction of the children of the nation, and of the right methods of attain...

In considering the question of the relation of the State to education, we have adopted the position that it is the duty of the State to see to the adequate provision of the mean...

A much more important and far-reaching question than that of the State provision for the medical examination and inspection of children attending Public Elementary Schools is th...

During the past thirty years no part of our educational system has received so much attention as the Elementary Schools of the country. If we compare the condition of things whi...

"Of all the animals with which the globe is peopled, there is none towards whom nature seems, at first sight, to have exercised more cruelty than towards man, in the numberless...

It is needless to point out that the method of educating the infant mind is the method of all education--viz., the regulation of the process by which experiences are acquired an...

But while we may hold that it is the duty of the State to see that the means for the education of the children of the nation is both adequate in extent and efficient in quality,...

We have seen that the process of education is the process of acquiring and organising experiences that will function in the determination of future conduct and ensure the more e...

Throughout we have assumed that it is the duty of the State to see to the adequate provision, to the due distribution, and to the proper co-ordination of all the agencies of edu...

We have seen that on its intellectual side the Primary School has two main functions to perform in the education of the child. In the first place, the school must endeavour to s...

"All public institutions of learning are called into existence by social needs, and first of all by technical practical necessities. Theoretical interests may lead to the foundi...

The first necessity of the present for teachers and for all concerned with the upbringing of children is to realise the true meaning of education--that it is the process by whic...