Excerpt from Studies and Observations in the School-Room
Doubtless, parents and teachers have studied children from the time of the earliest homes and schools, and certainly children have studied parents and teachers (perhaps more effectively) for as long. It is only within the last quarter of a century, however, that teachers have attempted to study children in a systematic way. The enthusiasm with which such study was carried on in this country a dozen years ago, caused the movement to be called "another educational fad" to which Americans are supposed to be peculiarly subject. To many teachers it was that and nothing more, but to others have come visions of the depth of educational wisdom to be reached from knowing the little child, his heart, his mind, his soul, "all in all" wherein is mirrored so clearly "what God and man is."
To-day there is much less popular talk about the study of children, but much more actual study of them. The froth and foam have disappeared, but interest in children has become an essential part of all streams of thought connected in any way with the origin and development of man. Evolutionary theory which has so completely modified scientific, philosophical and even theological thought in the last half century, culminates and finds its highest application in the development of children, and the individual needs of children are being considered by teachers more than at any time since the adoption of the graded system.
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