Excerpt from Social Principles of Education
Education is an ever-changing ideal; hence concepts of educational values and methods are in a state of constant reconstruction; and the aim of education must be progressively redefined. The direction of this reconstruction varies from age to age in accordance with the trend of thought. At one time education is valued for its contribution to religion; again, as a means of preparing a favored few for leisure or leadership; and at another time for its results in enlightenment, discipline, or culture in the life of the individual.
The present demand upon education, though but half defined in social consciousness, is that it shall relate itself immediately to the concrete and vital experience of all as they carry out the activities that constitute their life-process. Such values as knowledge, culture, power, no longer satisfy the educational ideal; these must in some way combine to spell efficiency. Nor is this efficiency something fanciful or unreal, but rather the power and the will to become an active, helpful contributor to the social welfare of the present. Education is therefore a social function, and educational values are to be measured in terms of social efficiency.
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