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- W2029971491 abstract "Tradition's hold on schools, tenacious through hundreds of years, is slipping. Here and there a rift appears. Schools are venturing, a bit timidly, to break with books and the concomitant bookishness. Some of the ventures are experimental, some radical; they are bound to be. But there is significance for those who have dared to make the break in the fact that quotation marks less often appear in connection with the words and when referring to new education and modern school. When I was superintendent of schools in a Boston suburb and since I have been principal of a private school in Staten Island, I have undertaken considerable adjustment of the curriculum, basing the adjustment on a theory of education which is generally accepted but not so generally practiced. It is short. This is it: School undertakes to prepare boys and girls for life, using the word in its big sense-life as opposed to existence. Therefore, the school tries to relate its teaching to life. It aims at the inculcation not of words but of ideas. It believes in studying not merely the textbook but, in so far as is possible, the real thing about which the textbook is written. The school is not an isolated place set apart to recite lessons in; in all its teaching it aims to come into touch with the world in which it is the school's place to prepare pupils to live. Self-activity and self-expression are key-notes of education. School work should be interesting. The pupils should see that school work is worth while. The school believes in methods that open eyes and wake up minds. The end of education is accomplished not merely by making pupils work but by making them want to work. The school aims to develop initiative, upon which more than anything else depend success, usefulness, and happiness in the world outside school. In a word, school aims to acquaint the" @default.
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- W2029971491 title "The School and the Community" @default.
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