Excerpt from School Surveys, 1918
Let me form a teacher's estimate of his results, and I care little who makes his methods! Given a true standard of what he is to accomplish, with a true judgment of how nearly he is accomplishing it, you may leave him alone to find the way, sooner or later. This truth gives tremendous significance to the recent movement to subject educational products to definite measurements.
The same principle holds largely of communities. The first step toward educational betterment is the comparison of accurately known conditions with what it is reasonable to demand. The practise of surveying school systems is destined to become universal, because it is so obviously useful. Of course this movement, like all things human, especially like all rapidly growing fashions, is accompanied with trumpeting, humbuggery, politics, and personal littleness. (Sometimes one feels what a fine thing it would be to survey the surveyors.) Yet after deductions for the eternal human, there remains a practise which can be made a powerful engine of efficiency and which is sure to become permanent.
Because there was a pressing need that our school folk be informed on this topic. Dr. Edmunds was requested to present, to the Department of Superintendence at its meeting last December, a treatment of School Surveys. The result is the following genuinely rich paper. The meeting ordered that it be put into permanent form, lest the teachers of the State should suffer a real loss.
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