The New Era in Education (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The New Era in Education<br><br>From time to time people write to the papers to criticise the schools. Their remarks usually bear witness to a lamentable ignorance of all the educational changes that have taken place during the last few years. The people who grumble ignorantly will probably wish to remain ignorant, as light would diminish their self-confidence and rob their ill-informed remarks of any excuse for reappearance. If they could be persuaded to read the chapters of this book they would perhaps realise that British education is at any rate not standing still. It would be too much to hope that those who merely regard schools as places where cheap but efficient clerks and operatives ought to be manufactured at the expense of the State, will view most of the experiments hereafter described with much favour. But those who are really serious in their wish to see a new race of citizens arise to play their part in the life of the community, will perhaps regain a little hope when they know of a few of the things that are happening in the schools of to-day.<br><br>As for the teachers, they stand in another class.<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.