The New Education A Review of Progressive Educational Movements of the Day (1915)

No single chapter can contain all of the progressive notes that are being sounded in American Elementary Education; yet it is possible, after some arbitrary picking and choosing...

A keen Atlanta business man leaned forward on his chair and spoke eagerly. "Yes, sir," he exclaimed, "the world is ours. We have the biggest, finest batch of undeveloped resourc...

If any two words in the English language can express the spirit of the Cincinnati schools, they are "co-operation" and "progressivism." The people of Cincinnati, high and low, h...

"Every pupil of high school maturity should be in high school atmosphere whether he has completed the work of the grammar grades or not," insists Dr. F. E. Spaulding. "Perhaps t...

There is a call of the land just as there is a call of the city, though the call of the city has sounded so insistently during the past century that men innumerable, heeding it,...

On the west side of Cincinnati, separated from the main part of the town by railroad yards, waste land and stagnant water, surrounded by factories and a myriad of little homes,...

The educational experiments described in the preceding chapters are replete with the spirit of the New Education. From the virile educational systems of the country a protest is...

In the first place children have certain needs because in common with many other living creatures they develop through spontaneous, self-expressive activity. The growth of child...

"Everybody is doing it," said a high school principal the other day. "I look through the new books and I find it; it stands out prominently in technical as well as in popular ma...

This is the story of a school that was built to fit a town, and it begins with a hypothetical case. Suppose that there was a town--a prosperous town of some 2,247 souls, set dow...

The sun shone mildly, though it was still late January, while the wind, which occasionally rustled the dry leaves about the fence corners, had scarcely a suggestion of winter in...

The influence which the industrial changes of the past hundred years has had on education is considerable. With the transformation of the home workshop into the factory has come...

Away off in northwestern New York State, where the sun shines fiercely in the summer mid-day, where the ice forms thick on the lakes, and the snow lies on the north side of the...

Can there be a new basis for education? Does the foundation upon which education rests really change? Is the educational system of one age necessarily unfitted to provide for th...