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and how to use all our
faculties to the greatest advantage of ourselves and of
others."--HERBERT SPENCER.
"The final value of all institutions is their educational
influence; they are measured morally by the occasions they afford
and the guidance they supply for the exercise of foresight,
judgment, seriousness of consideration, and depth of
regard."--JOHN DEWEY.
"Socialized education has four aims:
First. That the pupil shall acquire control of tools and methods
of social intercourse,--language, number, social forms and
conventions.
Second. That the pupil shall be favorably introduced to society
through acquaintance with science, arts, literature, and
through participation in present social life.
Third. That the pupil shall be trained for an occupation.
Fourth. That the motives of his conduct, his own individually
appreciated and chosen ends, shall be intelligently
socialized."--GEORGE ALBERT COE.
"The unbeliever says, 'You can never construct a true society out
of foolish, sick, selfish men and women as we know them to be.'
But the believer sees already a better state beginning to exist in
men transfigured by the power of education. And there is nothing
that man will not overcome, amend, and convert until at last
culture shall absorb, chaos itself."--EMERSON.
"At the present time it may be that only the least effort is
needed in order that truths already revealed to us should spread
among hundreds, thousands, millions of men and women and a public
opinion become established in conformity with the existing
conscience and the entire social organization become transformed.
It depends upon us to make the effort."--TOLSTOI.
=New Forms of Education Demanded by Modern Industry.=--When the
power-driven machine ushered in the new era in industry it lessened
both the prestige and the dignity of the individual worker in three
particulars. First, it destroyed the apprentice system and hence
reduced all workers to a level in the eyes of the employer of labor
and the general public. The apprentice system had used for educational
purposes the important period of adolescence between childhood and
youth. It had served with its ceremonial of entrance into the
journeyman's right and public recognition to give distinction to the
skilled workman, and it had made a nexus of social relationship, built
upon cr
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