Excerpt from Interest and Education: The Doctrine of Interest and Its Concrete Application
The purpose of this volume is to make a concrete application of the doctrine of interest to the matter and methods of education.
So long as mere training of the intelligence through drill upon the school arts, such as reading, spelling, grammar, and arithmetic, is regarded as the chief function of the elementary school, there is small need for any specific doctrine of interest. One naturally refrains from being tedious in instruction when one might just as well be interesting, precisely for the same reason that one does not willingly appear unkempt or ill dressed in society. But to sharpen the intellect, all we have to do is to keep it alert by drilling it and by occupying it with the solution of problems of steadily increasing difficulty. Such work does not necessitate any glowing enthusiasm; it needs only steady application.
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