Excerpt from Present Day Tendencies of Education
One of the most marked characteristics of this age is the gradual transformation that is taking place in our educational system. Not only are we gradually adapting the educational process to social demands, but we are, at the same time, adapting it to the needs of the child. The school of to-day is far in advance of what it was ten years ago, and the indications are that the next decade will see even greater progress in every phase of education. School men are studying educational problems more earnestly than ever before, and this study is already bringing a rich fruitage in a better understanding of the nature of the child and of the means to be used in bringing about his complete and harmonious development. To be sure, the conservatism of the school man and of others in charge of our educational system who have been educated under the old regime will, to a certain extent, impede educational progress and delay the practical application of the advance that has been made in educational theory; but, thanks to the progressiveness of the age and the reasonableness of the new educational principles, this conservatism is becoming less and less a factor to alarm us.
The greatest danger we see ahead is that both the school man and the school-board member will get the form without the spirit of the new education. In many cases it is evident that the new educational principles appeal to school officials and others chiefly because of their practical tendencies (and here we use the term practical in its narrow, material sense).
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