Modern Developments In Educational Practice

Modern Developments in Educational Practice (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Modern Developments in Educational Practice I his book America's Coming of Age Mr. Van Wyck Brooks tells us that on his side of the Atlantic "the recognised way of pinning down something that is felt to be in the air is to adopt some cast-off phrase and tack the word New before it." But America has no monopoly of the device. On this side we have always had the New Art: lately we added the New Theology, the New Nationalism, the New Psychology - and now we have the New Education, with its variant the New Teaching, not to speak of the New Children. The reader's first reaction to the much-used adjective is one of opposition. He declines to admit that these things are really new. Critics cannot resist the temptation to quote a thesomely familiar saying of a French cynic that the more such things change the more they are the same. In teaching, for example, no sooner does one suggest a method as something specially fresh than a resurrectionist expert is at hand to dig up from the history of education some hoary example of the same thing. 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.

Modern Developments in Educational Practice

Modern Developments in Educational Practice