Changes Needed in American Secondary Education (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Changes Needed in American Secondary Education The baby's assiduity in observation and_ experimentation, and the rapidity of its progress in sense-training are probably never matched in after life. Its mind is also trained fast, because it is constantly practising the mental interpretation of the phenomena which its senses present to it. The boy on a farm has admirable opportunities to train eye, ear, and hand , because he can always be looking at the sky and the soils, the woods, the crops, and the forests, having familiar intercourse with many domestic animals, using various tools, listening to the innumerable sweet sounds which wind, water, birds, and insects make on the countryside, and in his holidays hunting, fishing, and roaming. Increasing skill in the use of the hands and fingers has undoubtedly had much to do with the development of the human mind ever since man first stood erect, and set free from foot work his fingers and their opposing thumb. One of the best methods of developing the minds of children is practice in the coordinated activities of the brain and the hand. If brain, eye, and hand are cooperating, the developing mental effect is increased, and the mental action and reaction is stronger still when eyes, cars, and hands, and the whole nervous system, the memory, and the discriminating judgment are at work together. The fundamental trades - such as those of the carpenter, mason, blacksmith, wheelwright, painter, hand leather-worker, and shoemaker, have provided immensely valuable education for the human race, and have, indeed, been the chief means of raising barbarous peoples to a condition of approximate civilization. To-day the teaching of those trades, without much use of machinery, is the best mode of developing the natural powers of a backward people - like the North American Indians and the negroes. When a Hindu father transmits to his son not only his caste with all its privileges and its restrictions, but also his hand-trade - such, for example, as that of a goldsmith or a potter, he imparts to his son under a religious sanction some of the most important elements in a sound education. East Indian civilization has been in great part transmitted in this way. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.