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Interest and Effort in Education (Classic Reprint)
Interest and Effort in Education - Classic Reprint Author:John Dewey INTEREST AND EFFORT IN EDUCATION I UNIFIED VERSUS DIVIDED ACTIVITY I x the educational lawsuit of interest versus effort, let us consider the respective briefs of plaintiff and defendant. In behalf of interest it is claimed that it is the sole guarantee of attention; if we can secure interest in a given set of facts or ideas, we may be perfectly... more » sure that the pupil will direct his energ-ies toward mastering them; if we can secure interest in a certain moral train or line of conduct, we arc equally safe in assuming that the child's activities are responding in that direction; if we have not secured interest, we have no safeguard as to what will be done in any given case. As a matter of fact, the doctrine of discipline has not succeeded. It is absurd to suppose that a child gets more intellectual or men· tal discipline when he goes at a matter ullwill·
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