Excerpt from Our Schools and Colleges
A quarter of a century ago a distinguished writer on education exclaimed, "Educational science is yet in all the rubbish and disorder of discovery." Locke, in his generation, had exposed some of its humbugs in England; Rousseau did liis part in France: but before Pestalozzi's day, and long after, education in Europe was a sort of quackery. The monitorial systems of Bell and Lancaster had to be carried out in baskets full and buried; the Gradgrinds and Ichabod Cranes ceased to be our ideal school masters; "the three R.'s" failed to complete the school curriculum; and an ability to translate in the class-room a well-conned passage from Cicero or Homer ceased to he the acme of the college course. But, although much has been accomplished, a great deal remains to be done. The rubbish has been only partially removed; and we have but just reached the foundations on which education, as a science, rests.
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