Educational Foundations - v. 15 Author:Unknown Author Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: OSHIAN H. LiANQ, Editor. Vol. XV., NOVEMBER, 1903. No. 3. Ill Use of the Brief Lesson Cime. INCE secure what is excellent to be taught, and you ca... more »n hardly teach it with too much insistence, punctuality, universality. The more one sees of the young, the more one is struck with two things: how limited is the amount which they can really learn, how worthless is much that goes to make up this amount now. But the heart-breaking thing is, that what they can be taught and do learn is often so ill-chosen. "An apple has a stalk, peel, pulp, core, pips, and juice; it is odorous and opaque, and is used for making a pleasant drink called cider." There is the pedant's fashion of using the brief lesson-time, the soon-tired attention, of little children. How much, how far too much, of all our course of tuition, early and late, is of like value! Matthew Arnold. Social problems and the JSkw School Community. XX. To me this whole question is a religious one. I hold the specific purpose of the common school to be the social regeneration of the individual in the service of civilization, patriotism in the sense of good citizenship, neighborliness, and righteousness. It seeks to serve this purpose now in its limited sphere of child training by endeavoring to make every pupil self-supporting and self-reliant, and by seeking to instill in the young intelligent and unswerving respect for law and order together with rational views of personal liberty. Wherever these objects are consciously, honestly, and wisely cultivated we have a training school for and in social service. There a sound foundation is laid for the religious life, or if another phrase is more acceptable—there the religious development of pupils is being re-inforced as it should be, in every school. It has already ...« less