SCHOOL EDUCATION

Originally published in 1905 this book argues that the educational outlook was rather misty and depressing both at home and abroad. That science should be a staple of education that the teaching of Latin of modern languages of mathematics must be reformed that nature and handicrafts should be pressed into service for the training of the eye and hand that boys and girls must learn to write English and therefore must know something of history and literature; and on the other hand that education must be made more technical and utilitarian - these and such as these are the cries of expedience with which we take the field. But we have no unifying principle no definte aim; in fact no philosophy of education.