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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: progress by examinations, but he also had an unfailing belief that justice should be tempered with mercy and that the personal factor should be considered. In the case of Harold the teacher's tact and perseverance won over facts, figures and curves. As Dr. Maxwell has so well said, A flash of Horace Mann's insight is worth a thousand miles of statistics. Suppose we consider this question from a different viewpoint? that of results. We have spoken of Germany as the country where, of all countries, we find the principle of measurements and efficiency carried to its logical extreme. Today we see this country triumphing over all its enemies in every direction. We see Germany as the most powerful nation in the world. Whether she will still hold this proud place at the end of the war, it is not at present possible to decide. However that may be, the fact remains that in her field she has succeeded and succeeded admirably. Do we wish to emulate her success ? Has not her efficiency been a moral failure ? I think you will agree with me that it has. Is it, when all is said, desirable to increase the birth rate and decrease the death rate to provide food for the god of war? Are not, after all, the traits of human nature which lead man to enjoy himself in the surroundings of home and the society of friends worthy of consideration ? And yet so long as we worship at the shrine of success, so long as failure (from the standpoint of absolute efficiency) is the most opprobrious word we can use, just so long will these false ideals operate to make of us human machines. Much as I, personally, value the work of such men as Dr. Thorndike, still I cannot but feel that when they say that the greatest need of present day educational practice is the formulation of standards which will measure th...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780217066822
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 156
  • Spine Width: 8 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217066828
  • Publisher Date: 08 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 290 gr


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