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Educational Ghosts

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Day
12
Month
July
Year
1893
Copyright
Public Domain
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No in.'in to-day can praet-lce any oí the hiírher ajrtB to t bie bee1 e uniese he knowa the bdetory ol tha1 art. ' Ufe becomee extemporized and fr.-iíiini'iit.-iry uniese eaoh man, tnkiug ii]) Jiis work in the wortd, not merely attachee he wm-k tothe work cu' t.howe wlio went before liiin and beifins wnere they lieft off, but atoo kmows sonift h'.wj, oí i ín1 way Inwhich be adda ; part ol mr consistent and intelügible progress. We want to know tbe blunders mea have made, (lia! wc 111,'iy jmt niake them OVeí ayaim; we want to know what they have achleved, t luí t we may heip to carry íorwar.l their mu crsses towards their fu!l result. Iít me remitid you what are ome of the values that belons to the study of the lifetory of educa tion. First, tbere is the great uniera! valnc o! experienoe. To know what othcr men have dooe in the flepai-tment wlicrc yon liavc been set to work wlU Jiiake it unnoces.-.aiy that yon shonld o over again what tliey have ali-eady done. The student oí the hitory of oducation finds to his ureat surjirisc, that many of the educal ional ideas of his own time. wliirli seein to hun all iresh and new, were fouind out long ago, were uaed awhile. and then were lost again, only to be re-discovdi-ed at this later day. A vier study of educational hi.-tory would have made this rediscovery unnveessary, and 80 saved time and strentfth. II every generatKm lias to lieíí'm and prove over again that two times two is four, Avhat genera t ion will evet jiet bevond the proof tliat teai times ten is lini J AikI then. ajiain, 1 know how different studies eame to lx.1 introdneed would oftn thiTOW greiit light upon Um values of those studies. There run 1h' DO doubt that many studies liave been jntroduced legitiniately, for reasons tlutt were very stronir, but whieh were temporary, and then have reina ined like gboata haunting our schools lOBg aller their livintr ni'ces alty bad died a way. ir is alwaya hard to get any study out of our n'Iiiio]. w lien it ba once in. Each teacher íeamlng it as a boy Ie naturally ready to tearh il a-s a man. As .lolm Locke says, "It is no wonder ii tbooe lio 'luake ihe fashion snit it to liat t hey have and not to what their pupila want." ilere surely is the bey to a greal dea] ol the con.ei-,U:sm ind t radit ionalism of our ; and the surest way to break it down and to get rid of it would be Hueh a wise study of the iy of edueation. by those wh o are to tearh. as slnmld show them how the Ktudles whieh they [Ind in BChOOl Caaue there. and so help them to Jndge whether iiiuw gtudlM are to be dropped as temporary necesat lies whiell hae been OUtgTOWn, Or bo be kept fori'ver berause they are

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