A student's history of educationGraves, Frank Pierrepont
History
A student's history of education
Graves, Frank Pierrepont
Education -- History
our minds to all sorts of ideas and the proper ways of examining their
habitudes and relations; not to make them perfect in any one of the
sciences, but so to open and dispose their minds as may best make them
capable of any, when they shall apply themselves to it.”
[Sidenote: For moral training, the desires should be guided by reason.]
[Sidenote: For physical training, the ‘hardening process’ should be
used.]
=Disciplinary Attitude in Moral and Physical Training.=--The same
disciplinary conception of education underlies Locke’s ideals of
moral training: “That a man is able to deny himself his own desires,
cross his own inclinations, and purely follow what reason directs as
best, tho’ the appetite lean the other way. This power is to be got
and improved by custom, made easy and familiar by an early practice.”
And even more definitely disciplinary is the well-known ‘hardening
process,’ which he recommends in physical training: “The first thing to
be taken care of is that children be not too warmly clad or covered,
winter or summer. The face, when we are born, is no less tender than
any other part of the body. It is use alone hardens it, and makes it
more able to endure the cold.” He likewise advises that a boy’s “feet
be washed every day in cold water,” that he “have his shoes so thin
that they might leak and let in water,” that he “play in the wind and
sun without a hat,” and that “his bed be hard.”
[Sidenote: Evolved through the disappearance of the utilitarian
argument.]
[Sidenote: A general power afforded.]
[Sidenote: Every one should take certain studies, regardless of
interest.]
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