The Will
CHAPTER VIII.
Herbart and His Disciples
Books of Reference
CHAPTER I.
THE CHIEF AIM OF EDUCATION.
What is the central purpose of education? If we include under this
term all the things commonly assigned to it, its many phases as
represented by the great variety of teachers and pupils, the many
branches of knowledge and the various and even conflicting methods in
bringing up children, it is difficult to find a definition sufficiently
broad and definite to compass its meaning. In fact we shall not
attempt in the beginning to make a definition. We are in search not so
much of a comprehensive definition as of a central truth, a key to the
situation, an aim that will simplify and brighten all the work of
teachers. Keeping in view the end from the beginning, we need a
central organizing principle which shall dictate for teacher and pupil
the highway over which they shall travel together.
We will assume at least that education means the whole bringing up of a
child from infancy to maturity, not simply his school training. The
reason for this assumption is that home, school, companions,
environment, and natural endowment, working through a series of years,
produce a character which is a unit as the resultant of these different
influences and growths.
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