Excerpt from Militarism in Education: A Contribution to Educational Reconstruction
What we teach our children is not half so important as how we teach them. The things we learn in school, we in a great measure forget, but the influence of a good educational system remains for ever. - eotvos (first Hungarian Minister of Education, WE like to regard the human intellect as the basis of civilization, and to leave instinct to the beasts; but we cannot. Man never trusts to his reason though he has developed his brain to the degree of elephantiasis, and though the clear intellects of a few individuals may guide the course of human politics, the mass mind, which in the long run settles the trend of social evolution, rests for motive on instinct, blind as an insect's, emotional, irrational, Often hysterical. In a crowd feelings are accentuated, ideas cancelled out, and the crowd is the basis Of society.
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Excerpt from Militarism in Education: A Contribution to Educational Reconstruction
What we teach our children is not half so important as how we teach them. The things we learn in school, we in a great measure forget, but the influence of a good educational system remains for ever. - eotvos (first Hungarian Minister of Education, WE like to regard the human intellect as the basis of civilization, and to leave instinct to the beasts; but we cannot. Man never trusts to his reason though he has developed his brain to the degree of elephantiasis, and though the clear intellects of a few individuals may guide the course of human politics, the mass mind, which in the long run settles the trend of social evolution, rests for motive on instinct, blind as an insect's, emotional, irrational, Often hysterical. In a crowd feelings are accentuated, ideas cancelled out, and the crowd is the basis Of society.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Excerpt from Militarism in Education: A Contribution to Educational Reconstruction
Among others I have to thank Mr. J. L. Paton, Sir James Yoxall, Mr. C. Arthington Pease, Mrs. Noel Buxton and Mrs. Monica Ewer for information. The German information in Chapter V. I owe to Mr. Booth. I would like to mention here, as well as in the body of the book, Mr. R. E. Roper's valuable work Physical Education in Relation to School Life. Finally, my work would have been impossible without the help of Mr. T. O. Lloyd.
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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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