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The Meaning Of Education As Interpreted By Herbart (1907) (Paperback)
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PABT II. A STUDY OF HERBART. CHAPTER I. The Moral Aim. 1. Morality
Suggested as the One Aim of Education. " The one and the whole work
of education is summed up in the concept?Morality." These are
practically the first words in the official scriptures of
Herbartianism Many earnest educationists would instantly reject the
really amazing claim here n put forward. Education, they would
contend, has many and varied tasks to perform; any attempt to
resolve these varied tasks into one? even a great one?must result
only in a distortion of educational views and a comparative neglect
of important elements in human life. How, for example, can
aesthetic culture or intellectual keenness be regarded as a part of
" Morality " ? Needlework, swimming, and a multitude of other tasks
commonly imposed on the teacher?are not they a part of Education ?
This criticism?put forward systematically by Dittes and others?is
really as old as Herbart himself. It was, in fact, anticipated by
him. The Aeathetische DarsteUung der Welt will now be followed for
some sections. " We might assume as many problems for Education as
there are permissible aims for men. But then, this would involve as
many educational inquiries as problems. . . . All parts of the work
would be thrown out of their right proportions. If it is to be
possible to think out thoroughly and accurately, and to carry out
systematically, the business of Education as a single whole, it
must be previously possible to comprehend the work of Education
also as but one." Herbartianism, in fact, is an attempt so to unify
all educational effort as to direct it solely in one direction ?
the direction of Morality or Character. The goal is to be reached,
however, not by depreciating the value of " secular " subjects and
exalting...
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