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Education: How Old The New By: James J. Walsh (1865-1942) |
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EDUCATION HOW OLD THE NEW
BY
JAMES J. WALSH, M.D., Ph.D., Litt. D. Dean and Professor of the History of Medicine and of Nervous Diseases
at Fordham University School of Medicine; Professor of Physiological
Psychology at the Cathedral College, New York. SECOND IMPRESSION NEW YORK FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS 1911 COPYRIGHT. 1910, BY JAMES J. WALSH Published October 20th, 1910 Second Impression March 20th, 1911
THE QUINN & BODEN CO. PRESS
RAMWAY, N.J. TO THE Xavier Alumni Sodality Most of the thoughts contained in this volume were originally
expressed at our breakfasts. It seems only fitting, then, that on
presentation to a larger audience they should be dedicated to you. J. J. W.
Our Lady's Day. August 15, 1910
{v}
PREFACE The reason for publishing this volume of lectures and addresses is the
persuasion that present day educators are viewing the history of
education with short sighted vision. An impression prevails that only
the last few generations have done work of serious significance in
education. The history of old time education is neglected, or is
treated as of at most antiquarian interest and there is a failure to
understand its true value. The connecting link between the lectures
and addresses is the effort to express in terms of the present what
educators were doing in the past. Once upon a time, when I proclaimed
the happiness of the English workmen of the Middle Ages, the very
positive objection was raised, "How could they be happy since their
wages were only a few cents a day?" For response it was only necessary
to point out that for his eight cents, the minimum wage by act of
Parliament, the workman could buy a pair of handmade shoes, that being
the maximum price established by law, and other necessaries at similar
prices. If old time education is studied with this same care to
translate its meaning into modern values, then the very oldest
education of which we have any record takes on significance even for
our time. {vi} While it is generally supposed that there are many new features in
modern education, it requires but slight familiarity with educational
history to know that there is very little that is novel. Such
supposedly new phases as nature study and technical training and
science, physical as well as ethical, are all old stories, though they
have had negative phases during which it would be hard to to trace
them. The more we know about the history of education the greater is
our respect for educators at all times. Nearly always they had a
perfectly clear idea of what they were trying to do, they faced the
problems of education in quite the same spirit that we do and often
solved them very well. Indeed the results of many periods of old time
education are much better than our own, even when judged by our
standards. Unfortunately there exists a very common persuasion that evolution
plays a large role in education and that we, "the heirs of all the
ages in the foremost files of time," are necessarily in the forefront
of educational advance. There has been much progress in education in
the last century, but it would, indeed, be a hopeless world if there
had not been progress out of the depths in which education was plunged
in the eighteenth century. There were a number of reformers in
education at the end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the
nineteenth century... Continue reading book >>
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