Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: It is important that much of this material be translated into the consciousness of the child and by him increased, improved and handed forward to the next generation. To attain this end it is necessary that the slow method of nature, by which the learner laboriously discovers everything for himself, be displaced by a more rapid and rational method, by means of which, in a few years, the child will gain control of the results of centuries of development. It is desirable, also, that the child be socialized so as to become a helpful member of society. In other words, the purpose of education is to gain such control of the development of individual experience that at every step of the process through life the changes effected will be the best possible for the individual himself and for society at large. The school and teacher are the most satisfactory means for enabling the child to gain such education. Under these conditions society establishes the school in order that the child may receive the highest type of education in the best way. The school is thus a social institution, an artificial instrument created by society for facilitating educational processes, and the teacher is the mediator between society and the child to endeavor to see that the most desirable changes are effected in the child's development. chapter{Section 4CHAPTER II. Educational Problems and Their Solution I.?EDUCATIONAL AIMS: Point out differences between an educated and an uneducated man. Define education. Reconsidering child development from the standpoint of the highest purpose of education, state generally under headings enumerated hi the first question of the previous chapter, the qualities which, in your opinion, should be possessed by the ideal man when he arrives at maturity. ...