Excerpt from The Principles of Education
My chief object in writing this book has been to present a brief but comprehensive treatment of the problems of education as they have shaped themselves in teaching, gained amongst pupils of various ages between seven and twenty-one, and during several years of subsequent experience in guiding the preparation of persons about to enter the teaching profession. It is for the younger members of that profession that my book is primarily intended; and if I have written so as to stimulate them to serious thought about the work they have undertaken, I have achieved my direct purpose.
At the same time, I have attempted, in planning and executing the work, to contribute in some small degree towards placing the study of education on a secure basis. The great majority of English books on the subject are either frankly empirical or frankly psychological. The merest glance at these will show that it would ill become me to speak slightingly of the excellent work that has been done in the first of these directions. But the final word cannot rest with the empiricists. It remains for professed students of education to gather up, to harmonise, and to present in systematic form, the lessons of experience.
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