EDUCATIONAL AIMS AND EDUCATIONAL VALUES BY PAUL H. HANUS ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF THE HISTORY AND ART OF TEACHING, London MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY THIS book is written for laymen who are interested in Education, as well as for professional students and teachers. It consists of a series of essays on contemporary educational problems. In the first five chapters the attempt is made to formulate the aims of elementary and secondary education, and to describe the scope and methods of an education that meets the demands of modern life, both in its provisions for the development of the individual and in its training for social service. The remaining chapters deal with the professional training of the collegebred teacher, and with the services of John Amos Comenius who, in the seventeenth century advocated nineteenth-century educational reforms. Though written at different times, and delivered as lectures or addresses to various audiences of teachers and laymen, and subsequently printed as independent articles, these chapters really constitute-and this is especially true of the first five chapters—a progressive attempt to accomplish a single, somewhat comprehensive, purpose; namely, to disentangle from the contemporary educational confusion, in both theory and practice, our educational aims, and to examine these aims in the light of present and future needs. The reader will therefore find that there are occasional repetitions ; but he will also find, I think, that these repetitions are essential to the full discussion of the particular point then under consideration; they are not repetitions pure and simple. CONTENTS I. Educational Aims and Educational Values; II. A Recent Tendency in Secondary Education Examined; III. Attempted Improvements in the Course of Study; IV. What should the Modern Secondary School aim to Accomplish; V. Secondary Education as a Unifying Force in American Life; VI. The Preparation of the High School Teacher of Mathematics; VII. The Study of Education at Harvard University; VIII, The Permanent Influence of John Amos Comenius. HANDBOOK OF British, Continental, and Canadian Universities WITH SPECIAL MENTION OF THE COURSES OPEN TO WOMEN. COMPILED FOR THE GRADUATE CLUB OF BRYN MAWR COLLEGE THE many graduates of Bryn Mawr College who have continued their studies abroad, have strongly felt the need of a handbook defining the position of the different foreign universities in regard to the admission of women to their courses, and giving particulars of the lectures, degrees, entrance requirements, etc., of foreign universities and colleges. Accordingly, in 1896, the Graduate Club of Bryn Mawr College published a Handbook of Courses open to the Women in British, Continental and Canadian Universities containing all the information on the subject which it was possible, in a necessarily limited space of time, to collect. The funds necessary for the purpose were secured through the interest and assistance of the President of Bryn Mawr College. In 1899 it was decided to publish a new edition of the Handbook, and as it was found that practically all European universities and colleges were open to women and that the majority of the facts collected were as valuable to men students as to women students, the title was slightly modified. The information given in the Handbook has been obtained from the authorities of the different universities and collected from the calendars and other official publications. The facts gathered from these different sources have been put together in a condensed form, and it is hoped that the alphabetical arrangement adopted will be found convenient for reference. The attention of women students is called to the work of the Council to accredit Women for Advanced Work in Foreign Universities, a committee of the Association of Collegiate Alumnæ. The editor wishes to express her gratitude to all those whose kindness in supplying information made the compilation of the book possible, and to acknowledge her indebtedness to the 'Minerva Jahrbuch der Gelehrten Welt." It is intended to issue a new edition of the Handbook yearly, and the Editor will be grateful for corrections of the errors almost unavoidable in a book of this kind and for suggestions which may tend to make the next issue more serviceable. PRESS OPINIONS Guardian.- -"May well be useful to many beside those to whom it is more particularly addressed." Journal of Education.- "A very carefully compiled guide, giving in a brie compass all the information that an intending woman student can need." |