Author: John Fiske

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-11-21

Total Pages: 76

ISBN-13: 9780331602562

Excerpt from The Meaning of Infancy Ization the school was selective of a special kind of talent. It was not an instrument, so adjusta ble in its methods of appeal and instruction, that every manner of child could gain considerable' of the wisdom of the world. But when a more democratic order was established, the function of the school underwent a considerable change. (democracy granted to all men freedom in man hood' to safeguardits privileges, it had to edu cate all men in childhood. The school for selected scholars had to be transformed into a school for every variety of citizen) With every child sent to school by order of the state, the teacher had to forego his traditional aloofness, and to adjust his methods of teaching so that every member of the enlarged school community could come into a knowledge of the civilization in which he lived. With the inclusion of the blind, the deaf, the slow of mind, and the restless of spirit, -individuals left out Of the old scheme Of education and now reverently educated by the new democratic order in spite of all their defects, e the school becomes. More flexible and variable in its methods of trans mitting truth imore of the knowledge of human vu. 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.