The New Education: A Review of Progressive Educational Movements of the Day

Scott Nearing

Row, Peterson, 1915 - Education - 264 pages

Contents

• INTRODUCTION THE OLD EDUCATION: 11
• Some Harsh Words from the Inside: 12
• A Word from Huxley and Spencer: 15
• Some Honest Facts: 17
• Have We Fulfilled the Object of Education?: 22
• THE NEW BASIS FOR EDUCATION སམྦཥྨa ཤ The Vicious Practices of One Good School 40: 24
• Social Change: 25
• Keeping Up With the Times: 26
• Education in the Early Home: 27
• City Life and the New Basis for Education: 28
• TEACHING BOYS AND GIRLS I The New School Machinery: 32
• Rousseau Versus a Class of Forty: 33
• The Fallacious Average: 34
• The Five Ages of Childhood: 35
• Age Distribution in One Grade: 36
• Shall Child or Subject Matter Come First?: 39
• VII: 40
• Boys and GirlsThe One Object of Educational Activity: 42
• FITTING SCHOOLS TO CHILDREN: 44
• Children Need Health First: 45
• Play as a Means to Growth: 46
• Some Things Which a Child Must Learn: 48
• What Schools Must Provide to Meet Child Needs: 51
• The Educational Work of the Small Town: 52
• The Educational Problems of an Industrial Com munity 5565: 55
• Beginning With Child Needs: 56
• PROGRESSIVE NOTES IN ELEMENTARY EDUCATION: 58
• Translating the Three Rs: 59
• Playing at Mathematics: 60
• A Model English Lesson: 61
• An Original Fairy Story: 65
• The Crow and the Scarecrow: 67
• School and Home: 68
• Breaking New Ground: 71
• The School and the Community: 72
• New Keys for Old Locks: 74
• School and Shop: 76
• Half a Chance to Study: 79
• Thwarting Satan in the Summer Time: 80
• Sending the Whole Child to School: 81
• Smashing the School Machine: 84
• All Hands Around for an Elementary School: 86
• From a Blazed Trail to a Paved Highway: 90
• KEEPING THE HIGH SCHOOL IN STEP WITH LIFE: 92
• The Success Habit: 95
• The Helpout Spirit: 97
• Joining Hands With the Elementary Schools: 98
• The Abolition of Mass Play: 101
• Experimental Democracy: 103
• Breaching Chinese Wall of High School Classicism: 105
• An UptoDate High School: 107
• From School to Shop and Back Again: 109
• Fitting the High School Graduate Into Life: 110
• The High School as a Public Servant: 114
• HIGHER EDUCATION AT LOWVILLE: 116
• Lowville Academy: 117
• The Schools Opportunity: 119
• Field Work as Education: 120
• Real Domestic Science: 122
• One Instance of Success: 123
• A GREAT CITY SCHOOL SYSTEM: 125
• An Educational Creed: 127
• Vitalizing the Kindergarten: 129
• Regenerating the Grades: 132
• Popularizing High School Education: 137
• A City University: 140
• Special Schools for Special Classes: 141
• Special Schools for Special Children: 144
• Playground and Summer Schools: 145
• Mr Dyer and the Men Who Stood With Him: 147
• THE OYLER SCHOOL OF CINCINNATI: 153
• An Appeal for Applied Education: 156
• Solving a Local Problem: 157
• Domestic Science Which Domesticates: 159
• Making Commercial Products in the Grades: 161
• A Real Interest in School: 162
• The Mothers Club: 163
• The Disappearance of Discipline: 165
• The Spirit of Oyler: 167
• VITALIZING RURAL EDUCATION: 170
• Making Bricks With Straw: 171
• Making the OneRoom Country School Worth While: 182
• Repainting the Little Red Schoolhouse: 187
• A Fairyland of Rural Education: 188
• The Task of the Country School: 193
• OUT OF THE MOUTHS OF BABES AND SUCKLINGS: 195
• Going to Work Through the Children: 196
• Beginning on Muffins: 197
• Taking the Boys in Hand: 200
• Busy Work as an Asset: 201
• Marguerite: 203
• Winning Over the Families: 204

Popular passages

Page 24 - The speaker, and the schoolmaster, and the third grown person present, all backed a little, and swept with their eyes the inclined plane of little vessels then and there arranged in order, ready to have imperial gallons of facts poured into them until they were full to the brim.‎

Page 24 - He went. to work in this preparatory lesson, not unlike Morgiana in the Forty Thieves: looking into all the vessels ranged before him, one after another, to see what they contained.‎

Page 18 - ... the position of parents. While it is seen that for the purpose of gaining a livelihood, an elaborate preparation is needed, it appears to be thought that for the bringing up of children, no preparation whatever is needed. While many years are spent by a boy in gaining knowledge, of which the chief value is that it constitutes " the education of a gentleman...‎

Page 189 - STILL sits the school-house by the road, A ragged beggar sunning ; Around it still the sumachs grow, And blackberry- vines are running. Within, the master's desk is seen, Deep scarred by raps official ; The warping floor, the battered seats, The jack-knife's carved initial ; The charcoal...‎

Page 173 - BLESSINGS on thee, little man, Barefoot boy, with cheek of tan ! With thy turned-up pantaloons, And thy merry whistled tunes ; With thy red lip, redder still Kissed by strawberries on the hill ; With the sunshine on thy face, Through thy torn brim's jaunty grace' From my heart I give thee joy — I was once a barefoot boy ! Prince thou art — the grown-up man Only is republican.‎

Page 14 - When but one-third of the children remain to the end of the elementary course in a country where education is such a universal passion, there is something the matter with the schools. When half of the men who are responsible for the business activities and who are guiding the political life of the country tell us that children from the elementary schools are not able to do definite things required in the world's real affairs, there is something the matter with the schools.‎

Page 135 - He that hath clean hands and a pure heart ; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.‎

Page 173 - Oh for boyhood's painless play, Sleep that wakes in laughing day, Health that mocks the doctor's rules, Knowledge never learned of schools...‎

Page 24 - The speaker's obstinate carriage, square coat, square legs, square shoulders, - nay, his very neckcloth, trained to take him by the throat with an unaccommodating grasp, like a stubborn fact, as it was, - all helped the emphasis. 'In this life, we want nothing but Facts, sir; nothing but Facts!‎

Page 79 - ... if they have been granted age and schooling certificates and are regularly employed, shall be required to attend school not to exceed eight hours a week between the hours of 8 am and 5 pm during the school term.‎

Bibliographic information

• Title: The New Education: A Review of Progressive Educational Movements of the Day
• Author: Scott Nearing
• Publisher: Row, Peterson, 1915
• Length: 264 pages