EDPS 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: False Dilemma, Traditional Education
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If the interest is wholly in the end and not at all in the means, there is nothing to insure attention being kept upon the means and hence no way to guarantee the reaching of the ends (p. 433) Subject: external imposition of the material, traditional education. Conservative: fixed subject matter (sounds like arasmus greek and latin, logical (objective, discipline. Child: education in accord with the interest of the child alone, new education. Values incarnate in the matured experience of the adult. Only the whim of the child"s interest (new education) or forcing the student to exert effort (old education) Teacher as teacher should present subject as a teacher would, not as a scientist would.