THE NEW EDUCATION
Much attention has been given of late years to the need of giving right direction to the activity and intelligence of children, especially in the earlier stages of their school life. It is felt that one of the chief aims of education should be to train the scholar to acquire knowledge for himself by observation and experiment. This power, however, so far from being developed, is actually stunted and suppre- ed when the scholar is treated as the passive recipient of information. . . . The effects <’t such ; mechanical instruction may at the moment appear . .tisfactory. but are in fact superfic' and transitory and must therefore in the end prove disappointing, if not actually harmful.—Report of the Committee of the Council of Education of the United Kingdom, 1895. *
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 76, 7 June 1941, Page 2
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129THE NEW EDUCATION Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 76, 7 June 1941, Page 2
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