Excerpt from The Teaching of Hygiene, in the Grades

The impotency of mere knowledge is gradually being recognized by the schoolmaster. Long he has believed in the magical influence of information about human conduct. Centuries of unchanging pedagogical tradition bear witness to his faith in the omnipotence of facts. Now, somewhat suddenly, this sublime confidence in pure, or rather isolated, intellectual training, is disturbed by lay critic and psychological skeptic.

As long as theory and practice were the separate responsibilities of two different classes of people, the dependence of each on the other could not be fully perceived, and in consequence the assumed self-sufficiency of each was safe from destruction. It is precisely because contemporaneous intellectuality has assumed practical aims, and because practical work has sought an efficiency that requires scientific aid, that we are now no longer content in education to worship pure learnedness.

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