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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: The Curriculum Of The School rilHE evolution of the human race, viewed in toto, is a -- remarkable spectacle. From the cave man's domicile to the fifty-sixth story of a modern metropolitan skyscraper is a stretch of the imagination that severely tests the powers of many a mind, and yet Sociaj progress every day adds to the wonder of the achieve- nd changing '., i i .mi ideals and ment. As a people, we are a long way still aims fa from the summit of civilization's mountain, education and the procession is steadily winding up its slopes, leaving the stragglers to fall by the wayside. Individuals who are slow to discern this evolution of the race need to be constantly reminded of the never ceasing struggle of man for nobler achievements in order to bring their lives into harmony with humanity's aims and ambitions and to fit their steps to the march of the ages lest they obstruct or impede its progress by their lack of understanding or obstinate resistance. Past changes have been many and profound, but if modern life exhibits one chief characteristic, it is the tendency toward whirlwind changes in human relationship and the scramble of society to adjust itself to the new conditions. Figuratively speaking, the human family is in a ferment. Mind and body are feverishly active, not passive; living, not dead. We have not only learned to adjust ourselves passively to a natural environment, but have learned to transcend and re-create that environment to serve our growing needs and desires. Naturally, in such an ever changing social order which is constantly modifying its ideals of moral and ethical life, there can be no stable formula for popular education. At best we can merely lay down broad principles and rules by which to evaluateour educational creeds and practices. On ...
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