Some Reflections on Education and Professoring.
The article focuses on the controversy regarding the nature of education and the means by which a state of being educated is achieved. The education of the individual consists of the impact on his mind of the entire stream of phenomena encountered during his lifetime. Formal education is only one sector of the whole process, and presumably not the most important element in many cases. A school should be regarded as a specialized undertaking, not as the embodiment of all human experience and activity, in a miniature. A school should concentrate on the training and learning that can be accomplished more speedily and effectively in an institutional setting than through general day-by-day experience. Moreover, the school should not only restrict its efforts to fields which lend themselves to attack in classroom and laboratory but should give primary attention to subjects that are acknowledged to be especially significant and worthwhile. In making a start on the task of sets ting standards for selecting subjects to be taught it may be helpful to take note of some broad principles.
- DOI
- 10.2308/tar-4484171
- Volume
- 42 (1)
- Pages
- 7-23
- Language
- en
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