Excerpt from British Education After the War IN the present book Mr. Gould outlines a scheme of education of a comprehensive and, in the truest sense, a philosophic kind. There is more in it than meets the eye. I make that somewhat banal remark because I know the mentality of the modern educationist when he adopts the role of critic. He, with his poor reach-me downs Of freedom of the teacher, personality of the teacher, and the rest - formulas which mean, in prac tice that the better-paid educationists in our professional ...
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Excerpt from British Education After the War IN the present book Mr. Gould outlines a scheme of education of a comprehensive and, in the truest sense, a philosophic kind. There is more in it than meets the eye. I make that somewhat banal remark because I know the mentality of the modern educationist when he adopts the role of critic. He, with his poor reach-me downs Of freedom of the teacher, personality of the teacher, and the rest - formulas which mean, in prac tice that the better-paid educationists in our professional chairs, our boards of education, our local bureaux have no large constructive tasks to perform for their eight hundred or twelve hundred a year - will get scant comfort from the following pages. Liberty - Oi the teacher or of the child? It has no intrinsic value (ch. Iii, p. The personality of the teacher We do not need teachers with a magical personality' (ch. Ii, p. 24) and, in any case (mr. Gould would probably add), we cannot expect to staff any profession with strong personalities. Growth, self-expression, self-develop ment - in teacher or pupil? I do not allow that self-development is a proper end in itself (ch. Iii, p. One after another, generally by the employment of a single phrase or sentence, Mr. Gould knocks over these traps made for the unwary by the unlucid. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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