Excerpt from Isolation in the School, Vol. 1: The Degree of Doctor of Philosophy, (Department of Pedagogy)
Every state and territory in the United States has a system of free schools. The attitude of the American people toward education is evidenced by this general establishment of schools and the liberal provision for their support. The influence of this attitude on education itself has been twofold: its function and scope have been enlarged; its intrinsic value and prestige have been questioned. The inadequacy of the old conception of education to meet the demands and the doubts has become such a prolific source of disquietude and dissatisfaction that ere long a new one must needs be constructed. The new standard, with its adaptation to social and economic conditions, bids fair to be the dominant factor in the social product of the future.
There are many phases to the problem of evolving a highly organized social institution which shall have that ease in adjustment and that adaptation to ends which characterize thought in its free activity. To some the application of the biological conception of an organism to the school, both in its structure and workings, is very attractive.
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