The New Education, by Scott Nearing, Ph.D

About this eBook

Author

Nearing, Scott, 1883-1983

Title

The New Education A Review of Progressive Educational Movements of the Day (1915)

Credits

Produced by Chris Curnow, Matt Mello and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net

Language

English

LoC Class

LB: Education: Theory and practice of education

Subject

Education

Category

Text

eBook-No.

26919

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26919

Release Date

October 14, 2008

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.The New Education — A REVIEW OF PROGRESSIVE EDUCATIONAL MOVEMENTS OF THE DAY — BY
2. 2.SCOTT NEARING, Ph.D. — AUTHOR OF “SOCIAL ADJUSTMENT,” “THE SUPER RACE,” “WAGES IN THE UNITED STATES,” “SOCIAL SANITY,” “REDUCING THE COST OF LIVING,” etc.
3. 3.PREFACE
4. 4.CONTENTS
5. 5.THE NEW EDUCATION — INTRODUCTION
6. 6.THE OLD EDUCATION — I The Critical Spirit and the Schools — II Some Harsh Words from the Inside — III A Word from Huxley and Spencer — IV Some Honest Facts — V Have We Fulfilled the Object of Education? — FOOTNOTES: — CHAPTER I
7. 7.THE NEW BASIS FOR EDUCATION [16] — I Can There Be a New Basis? — II Social Change — III Keeping Up with the Times — IV Education in the Early Home — V City Life and the New Basis for Education — FOOTNOTES: — CHAPTER II
8. 8.TEACHING BOYS AND GIRLS — I The New School Machinery — II Rousseau Versus a Class of Forty — III The Fallacious “Average” — IV The Five Ages of Childhood — V Age Distribution in One Grade — VI Shall Child or Subject Matter Come First? — VII The Vicious Practices of One “Good” School — VIII Boys and Girls—The One Object of Educational Activity — FOOTNOTES: — CHAPTER III
9. 9.FITTING SCHOOLS TO CHILDREN — I Child Growth—A Primary Factor in Child Life — II Children Need Health First — III Play as a Means to Growth — IV Some Things Which a Child Must Learn — V What Schools Must Provide to Meet Child Needs — VI The Educational Work of the Small Town — VII The Educational Problems of an Industrial Community — VIII Beginning with Child Needs — CHAPTER IV
10. 10.PROGRESSIVE NOTES IN ELEMENTARY EDUCATION — I The Kindergarten — II Translating the Three R’s — III Playing at Mathematics — IV A Model English Lesson — V An Original Fairy Story — VI The Crow and the Scarecrow — VII School and Home — VIII Breaking New Ground — IX The School and the Community — X New Keys for Old Locks — XI School and Shop — XII Half a Chance to Study — XIII Thwarting Satan in the Summer Time — XIV Sending the Whole Child to School — XV Smashing the School Machine — XVI All Hands Around for An Elementary School — XVII From a Blazed Trail to a Paved Highway — CHAPTER V
11. 11.KEEPING THE HIGH SCHOOL IN STEP WITH LIFE — I The Responsibility of the High School — II An Experiment in Futures — III The Success Habit — IV The Help-Out Spirit — V Joining Hands with the Elementary Schools — VI The Abolition of “Mass Play” — VII Experimental Democracy — VIII Breaching the Chinese Wall of High School Classicism — IX An Up-to-Date High School — X From School to Shop and Back Again — XI Fitting the High School Graduate Into Life — XII The High School as a Public Servant — CHAPTER VI
12. 12.HIGHER EDUCATION AT LOWVILLE [20] — I Lowville and the Neighborhood — II Lowville Academy — III The School’s Opportunity — IV Field Work as Education — V Real Domestic Science — VI One Instance of Success — FOOTNOTES: — CHAPTER VII
13. 13.A GREAT CITY SCHOOL SYSTEM [21] — I “Co-operation” and “Progressivism" — II An Educational Creed — III Vitalizing the Kindergarten — IV Regenerating the Grades — V Popularizing High School Education — VI A City University — VII Special Schools for Special Classes — VIII Special Schools for Special Children — IX Playground and Summer Schools — X Mr. Dyer and the Men Who Stood With Him — FOOTNOTES: — CHAPTER VIII
14. 14.THE OYLER SCHOOL OF CINCINNATI — I An Experiment in Social Education — II An Appeal for Applied Education — III Solving a Local Problem — IV Domestic Science Which Domesticates — V Making Commercial Products in the Grades — VI A Real Interest in School — VII The Mothers’ Club — VIII The Disappearance of “Discipline" — IX The Spirit of Oyler — CHAPTER IX
15. 15.VITALIZING RURAL EDUCATION — I The Call of the Country — II Making Bricks with Straw — III Making the One-Room Country School Worth While — IV Repainting the Little Red Schoolhouse — V A Fairyland of Rural Education — VI The Task of the Country School — FOOTNOTES: — CHAPTER X
16. 16.OUT OF THE MOUTHS OF BABES AND SUCKLINGS — I Miss Belle — II Going to Work Through the Children — III Beginning on Muffins — IV Taking the Boys in Hand — V “Busy Work” as an Asset — VI Marguerite — VII Winning Over the Families — CHAPTER XI
17. 17.WIDE-AWAKE SLEEPY EYE — I Fitting Schools to Needs — II Getting the Janitor in Line — III The Department of Agriculture — IV A Short Course for Busy People — V Letting the Boys Do It — VI A Look at the Domestic Science — VII How It Works Out — VIII Theoretical and Practical — CHAPTER XII
18. 18.THE SOUTH FOR THE NEW EDUCATION — I A Dream of Empire — II Finding the Way — III Jem’s Father — IV Club Life Militant — V Canning Clubs — VI Recognition Day for Boys and Girls — VII Teaching Grown-Ups to Read — VIII George Washington, Junior — IX A Step Toward Good Health — X Theory and Practice [28] — XI A People Coming to Its Own — FOOTNOTES: — CHAPTER XIII — THE SPIRIT OF THE NEW EDUCATION — I The Standard of Education — II Standardization Was a Failure — III Education as Growth — IV Child Needs and Community Needs — V The Final Test of Education
19. 19.INDEX

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