What Do We Mean by Education? (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from What Do We Mean by Education? We live in an age of great educational unrest. For many years enthusiasts have preached 'education' as a cure for all social ills, and vast sums have been expended on schools. Yet the result is a very general dissatisfaction, and the voice of the doubter becomes more insistent as the demands on his purse increase. Parents are often apathetic, sometimes hostile. Employers of all grades complain that young people come to them from the schools badly trained, wanting in initiative and adaptability, and in power of serious concentration. Social reformers confess that there is little sign of a general elevation of the national character, even when they do not lament its decadence. Everywhere it is frankly questioned whether the country is getting an adequate return for the money it expends on the schools. Yet, never have teachers, as a body, been more intelligent, more enthusiastic, more devoted. Still, the enthusiasts demand an increase of school life as an unfailing remedy for school defects, and continually schemes of training are put forward for removing all cause for complaint. Unhappily these show no agreement among themselves, are generally based on superficial analysis of the problem, and often involve inconsistent principles. 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.