What the War Teaches about Education Author:Ernest Carroll Moore 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: "IS THE STRESS WHICH IS NOW BEING PUT UPON THE PRACTICAL INTERFERING WITH THE IDEALISTIC TRAINING OF OUR BOYS AND GIRLS?"1 A Recent report of the United State... more »s Commissioner of Education contains the statement that the vocationalizing of education remains the dominant note of the year. It will probably continue to be of paramount importance for many years, since the vocational movement in its larger aspects bears such vital relation to the whole problem of widening democracy. There can be no question that this movement is on. It has two forms, one the movement for definite vocational or trade or occupational training, the other a much larger movement to make education of all sorts definitely and specifically preparatory for the life that the student will lead by making that life the basis of his education throughout. Any one who reads the most interesting educational paper which comes to my table — the Educational Supplement of the London Times — will not be long in discovering that this current of educational change is running far more rapidly in England just now than it is in America. That education must be modernized by being made so practical that it will fit menand women to cope with the everyday affairs of life is as definite a conviction over there as that England must win the war. If our nation becomes involved in the war, it will come out of it with many times more interest in practical education than it now has. In short the world seems to have entered upon an educational renaissance far more important and more widereaching than any educational revival through which it has yet passed. We live at one of those great times when old things are rapidly passing away and all things are being made new. 1 An address before the Religious Education Association, Boston, F...« less