Condensed Volume 6 Book 2 Chapter 4 Part 1
THE BASIS OF NATIONAL STRENGTH A LIBERAL EDUCATION FROM A NATIONAL STANDPOINT KNOWLEDGE IKNOWLEDGE Educationally, we are in a bad way…Why? we ask… a lamentable want of knowledge—lack of education; he appears to have little insight, imagination, or power of reflection. The tendency in his class is that “dangerous tendency which we must all do our best to resist”…“the spirit of the horde,… is being … Continue reading Condensed Volume 6 Book 2 Chapter 4 Part 1
A Philosophy of Education Volume 6 Book 2 Chapter 4 Part 1
THE BASIS OF NATIONAL STRENGTH[1] A LIBERAL EDUCATION FROM A NATIONAL STANDPOINT KNOWLEDGE I KNOWLEDGE WE have from time to time given some attention to the failure of our attempts to educate “The Average Boy,” and it may be useful to look into one or two fundamental principles upon which this question and others seem to me to depend. For if our conceptions of education … Continue reading A Philosophy of Education Volume 6 Book 2 Chapter 4 Part 1
Condensed Volume 6 Book 2 Chapter 3
THE SCOPE OF CONTINUATION SCHOOLS Not only in Prussia but throughout western Europe there was a more or less active intellectual renaissance, but, whether because the times were not ripe or the peoples were not worthy, the high ideals of the early days of the century were superseded by the utilitarian motive. When the ‘Continuation School’ movement revived, envy of the commercial and manufacturing successes … Continue reading Condensed Volume 6 Book 2 Chapter 3
A Philosophy of Education Volume 6 Book 2 Chapter 3
THE SCOPE OF CONTINUATION SCHOOLS A HUNDRED years ago, about the close of the Napoleonic wars, there was such another stirring among the dry bones as we are aware of to-day. All the world knew then, as now, that war was the outcome of the wrong thinking of ignorance, and that education was the nostrum for minds diseased. Prussia led the way; not the children … Continue reading A Philosophy of Education Volume 6 Book 2 Chapter 3
Why Not Read Charlotte’s 1881 Elementary Geography online for free?
Yes absolutely you sure can. That’s what we did when I first started. There are also reprints out there of the 1881 version. However we used it one time and then I shelved it. I had no desire to go through that book again with another child. We had tears in our family using the old 1881 version. It nagged at me though. How could … Continue reading Why Not Read Charlotte’s 1881 Elementary Geography online for free?
Condensed Volume 6 Book 2 Chapter 2
A LIBERAL EDUCATION IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS MIGHTY is the power of persistent advertisement. ‘Pelmanism’ [memory training system] is bringing an indictment against secondary education. Half a million souls, Judges and Generals, Admirals and Barristers, are protesting that they have not been educated. “Pay the schoolmaster well and you will get education” is the panacea of the moment, and so we get in one neighbourhood a … Continue reading Condensed Volume 6 Book 2 Chapter 2
A Philosophy of Education Volume 6 Book 2 Chapter 2
A LIBERAL EDUCATION IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS MIGHTY is the power of persistent advertisement. The author of The Pagan may or may not be bringing an indictment against Pelmanism*, but without any doubt ‘Pelmanism’ is bringing an indictment against secondary education. Half a million souls, Judges and Generals, Admirals and Barristers, are protesting that they have not been educated. No doubt the spirit that informs advertisements … Continue reading A Philosophy of Education Volume 6 Book 2 Chapter 2
My 13 Year old’s Daily Schedule
This is what my 13 year old is doing right now. There are Together Time subjects are done with the entire family which take about 2 additional hours. And the ‘real life’ part of this, typically we get one hour of Together Time done, the second part, is hit and miss- often more miss. He is not completely turned loose with this. He does a … Continue reading My 13 Year old’s Daily Schedule
Condensed Volume 6 Book 2 Chapter 1
Book II Theory Applied CHAPTER I LIBERAL EDUCATION IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS I NEED not waste time in attempting to convince the reader of what we all know, that a liberal education is, like justice, religion, liberty, fresh air, the natural birthright of every child. Neither need we discuss the scope of such an education. We are aware that good life implies cultivated intelligence,… Educated teachers … Continue reading Condensed Volume 6 Book 2 Chapter 1
A Philosophy of Education Book 2 Chapter 1
Theory Applied LIBERAL EDUCATION IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS I NEED not waste time in attempting to convince the reader of what we all know, that a liberal education is, like justice, religion, liberty, fresh air, the natural birthright of every child. Neither need we discuss the scope of such an education. We are aware that good life implies cultivated intelligence, that, according to the Platonic axiom, … Continue reading A Philosophy of Education Book 2 Chapter 1
Real Living Life 