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Show 119 Mormon-sponsored Improvement Era points Deweyan commitment to the child and out even more explicitly Hall IS self-activity: The self-activity of the child must be exercised to its full capacity; the physical environment must furnish all the stimuli required, and the social influences, especially of the home, the community, and the school, mus t work in harmony. Educati on is progressive realization of the purposes of life, through the organic interaction of self-activity and the social and physical the en vir 0 n me n t. 39 A 1910 Utah Educational Review still further indicates Hall IS long-time celebration of the child: The new course of study regards the child as the center of educational effort. The child, however, is a social individual, and while all progress is initiated by the individual, this is only in response to the demands of his physical and social environ ment. The physical and spiritual welfare of the child is there fore of first importance in education, not for the sake of the child alone, but because of his relationship to the home, the community, and the nation.4o Howard Driggs, supervisor of literature School, located the center of true at the State Normal education with the child: Deal with the child as an individual. Study his inner nature and minister to his needs as you find them. Shape your courses and Find out what knowledge he already lessons to fit the child. has acquired--whether in school or out--and build upon that. Respect the pupil IS individuality; encourage independence of Do not make your schools mere action along legitimate lines. Machine-made brains cannot machines for wholesaling education. of this changeful old world.41 cope well with the problems Joseph Peterson, dismissed for at Brigham Young University in teaching evolution and higher criticism of the Bible, espoused 39rosiah Hall, 1905):748-49. "Data of Education," Improvement 41Howard R. Educational Review 4 a (August Era 8 4 0Mos i ah Ha 11, "The New Course of Study for the Pub 1 i of the State," Utah Educational RevievJ 4 (November 1910):20. 1911 c School Driggs, "A Square Deal for Every Child," Utah (June 1911):14. s |
