The Family
An Ethnographical and Historical Outline With Descriptive Notes (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Family: An Ethnographical and Historical Outline With Descriptive Notes<br><br>It is notable that almost all of the amazing quickening of the past two or three decades in the art of teaching has been confined to kindergarten and school. College teaching has changed, of course, and to a considerable extent during this period, but the change is, for the most part, merely a reflex from elementary school-teaching; it is not spontaneous. Through the demand for more varied interests and more direct personal observation in kindergarten and school, the curriculum of the college has also been broadened and varied, and the laboratory has encroached upon the lecture room. Imitation of the ever-widening university curriculum has played a part here, too. The purposive indifference to pedagogic method in the professional schools of the university has also been widely imitated in the college. This lack of spontaneous development in college instruction has led, together with other factors, to the swamping of the college in the school and university. This is not the place to discuss in any detail the relations of these three agents of education. It is plain, however, that if the college is to be continued as a distinct educational agency in the belief that its training and inspiration are essential to scholarly, effectual, and social habits of thought and work, something more is necessary than its mere readjustment in the time-table of education.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>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.