Sociological Determination of Objectives in Education
The book Sociological Determination of Objectives in Education was written by author Snedden, David, 1868-1951 Here you can read free online of Sociological Determination of Objectives in Education book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Sociological Determination of Objectives in Education a good or bad book?
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These clean-limbed, open-minded youth of ours — are we to believe that they have only inferior capacities for higher idealism, for the development of that new human- ism for which the twentieth century calls? It is the proper function of education to help face these adolescents towards the future. This is no static civilization of ours. We are not seeking to remain eternally on the same level. We have learned the inevitableness of change, of evolution, and we have begun to feel, if not yet clea...rly to perceive, the possibilities of controlled evolution. 5. POSSIBLE PROGRAMS What is the problem before the educational institu- tions of America? It is, let us repeat, to provide on be- half of our youth, the genuine means of a liberal educa- tion that shall be adapted to our age, our people, our circumstances. What would the best of the Athenians of the age of Pericles do were they in our place to-day? Would they try to find in forgotten tongues and antiquated fragments of literature the culture, the idealism, the men- io8 ESSENTIALS OF LIBERAL EDUCATION tal disciplines that will transform plastic youths into citi- zens strong to uphold the state, to advance up the slopes of intellectual inquiry and of appreciation of the possi- bilities of conscious cooperative direction of social forces towards the higher goals that the purposeful discovery of the future will reveal to us?
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