Proceedings Of The Michigan Schoolmasters Club

Author : Michigan Schoolmasters' Club
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780260580917
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Proceedings of the Michigan Schoolmasters' Club at the Thirty-Seventh Meeting written by Michigan Schoolmasters' Club and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-02 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Proceedings of the Michigan Schoolmasters' Club at the Thirty-Seventh Meeting: Held in Ann Arbor, March 27, 28 and 29, 1902 However, suppose that after all is said and done, there persists a remainder of conflict between the popular and the scholastic studies, between the interests of the many who are looking towards the world and the relatively few whose eye is turned in the direction of college? I am more loath to commit myself to an answer than from my way of putting the alternative might seem. I hardly know which to prefer, or more accurately, which to esteem less, a democracy which slights its provisions for the secure prosperity of the higher science, art, and philosophy, or an aristoc racy oi superior culture which pursues its own concerns in abstract detach ment from the well-being of the mass. Nevertheless, if we are to hold to our faith in our democratic gospel that the provision for the great majority at even a lower level is in the long run better for society than the provision at a high level for the minority, we must, I suppose, decide that the sacri fice must be in the direction of the interest of the smaller number. In the ordinary American high school, Greek and even Latin must be prepared to take a back seat as against United States history and hygiene; and it behooves the professors of these and kindred subjects obviously for the benefit of the select college-going remnant, to ask themselves whether even now the time has not arrived for. Say, such a concession to democratic prejudice as providing for beginning-classes within the college course itself, ideally or even pedagogically unsatisfactory as this, from every other point of view, may be. 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.