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Philosophy of Education (Classic Reprint)
Philosophy of Education - Classic Reprint Author:Thomas Edward Shields PREFACE The Philosophy of Education furnishes a common meeting ground for all who are interested in any phase of educational work. The correct solution of the problems which it discusses concerns the pastor and his people no less than it does the teacher and his pupils. The Catholics of this country are justly proud of their schools. The magnitu... more »de attained by the Catholic school system, during the last few decades, in spite of the double taxation of our people which is involved, bears eloquent testimony to the faith, generosity and loyalty of our Catholic people. The excellence of the work accomplished by the schools for our Catholic children along intellectual, moral and religious lines is abundant compensation for all the. sacrifices made . The time is now at hand for earnest consideration of the great fundamental principles which make for the integration and standardization of our schools. They have all sprung from Catholic impulse and they all share in the common
Table of Contents
TABLE OF CONTENTS; CHAPTER I; Introduction; The Philosophy of Education in the Curriculum; Pure and Applied Philosophy ; The Eugenic Viewpoint ; Physical and Social Heredity ; Genetic Philosophy of Education; The Con version ~lotive ; Psychological Aspect of Religion ; The Catholic Standpoint ; PART I; THE NATURE OF THE EDUCATIVE PROCESS; CHAPTER II; Physical and Social Heredily; Human and Animal Instinct :; Education and Social H~redity; The Fivefold Spiritual Inheritances; Individual and Social Velfare ; From Didactic to Organ ic Alethods; Social Heredity as llental Food ; The Church and Secular Ed ucation; Four-fold Source of llental Food; Absence of God Causes Fragmented Curriculum; CHAPTER ITr; From the Static to the Dynamic; Shifting the Center of Interest ; Didactic and Organic Methods; Jack and the lleau-stalk as Parable ; l-ieaning or the Doctrine of Evolution; Rise of the Doctrine of Evolution; New Interest in History;« less