An Experiment in Education Also the Ideas Which Inspired It And Were Inspired
The book An Experiment in Education Also the Ideas Which Inspired It And Were Inspired was written by author Mary Rose Alling Aber Here you can read free online of An Experiment in Education Also the Ideas Which Inspired It And Were Inspired book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is An Experiment in Education Also the Ideas Which Inspired It And Were Inspired a good or bad book?
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A child's consciousness is continually occupied with movements and what moves, and rarely with record keeping; and to fasten his attention upon the record is to give him the dry husks of history instead of its living reality. The records themselves he will retain and learn to discriminate their values in proportion as his mind is concentrated upon the trend of events and the conditions which produce that ti'end, and the record is lost sight of save in its to him un- conscious use as an adjunct ...to his thinking and picturing the events. Such corrections of the historical narrative as are made from age to age depend less upon the discovery of new documents than upon the new point of view v^bich some one gets of the move- 140 AN EXPERIMENT IN EDUCATION ment, and so gives to tlie same old documents a new content. Records are to history " the letter that killeth, " for the movement itself has charm to students of all ages, and especially to children ; and it is here, in connection with the actual movements of our human whole, that a child's fondness for stories should be fostered and fed.
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