Author: Ferdinand Buisson

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2015-06-27

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 9781330426661

Excerpt from French Educational Ideals of Today: An Anthology of the Molders of French Educational Thought of the Present Two members of the International Congress on Education, held at Oakland, California, in 1915, noticed regretfully to what extent the personnel of the two systems of education in France and the United States, although animated by a common inspiration, were ignorant of each other's purposes and ideals. It seemed to M. Ferdinand Buisson, official representative at Oakland of the French Ministry of Public Instruction, formerly Director of Primary Education in France, and to Frederic Ernest Farrington, executive secretary of the Congress and connected with the United States Bureau of Education, that a first attempt at bringing these two systems of schools closer together could be made by exchanging two volumes of texts chosen from representative educators in both countries, each volume to be translated into the language of the other country. Pursuant to this feeling, it was determined to bring out simultaneously in the two countries two volumes which should portray to American readers the fundamental ideals on which the French system of education is grounded, and to French readers in similar fashion the dominant ideals underlying our American educational spirit. French Educational Ideals of Today represents the American part of the plan, and we hope that it may help the American public to understand better the French educational point of view. Two subjects, lay education and moral instruction, may seem to have received an undue amount of attention. 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.