Development of Personality

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Excerpt from Development of Personality: A Phase of the Philosophy of Education At the very beginning of modern education, Com enius founds his system upon the assertion that the chief aim of education is to live in the happiness of God and in harmony with His teachings. Pestalozzi would not have elevation of the intellect to be the chief end of education. Its first in¿uence is moral and re ligious, which to him were identical. Reformer he was, protesting against mere systems and routine from which the spirit had been driven. Everywhere, he said, ¿esh predominates over spirit. Everywhere the divine element is cast into the shade. Everywhere self ishness and passions are the motives of action. Every where mechanical actions usurp the place of intelligent initiative. Man does not live by bread alone, every child must have religious growth, every child must learn to pray to God in simplicity, with faith and love. If religion, he says, does not permeate the whole of education, religion will have little in¿uence on life. It will remain isolated, remote, formal, me chamical. His summary Of the essentials of modern education is contained in these words: The child ac customed from the earliest years to think, to work and to pray is more than half educated already. 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.