Organic Education; A Manual for Teachers in Primary and Grammar Grades (Paperback)

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: CHAPTER II. FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES. When the plan had unfolded itself sufficiently to manifest its family likeness to the " culture-epoch" system, it also disclosed some very striking divergencies from that system as applied by Ziller and his followers in the German school.1 In the first place, the "culture epochs" used in the foreign schools confine themselves largely to German and biblical history, whereas any American system must of necessity accommodate itself to the breadth of our national inheritances, and to the non-sectarian principles of our schools. Consequently the periods of development here used have been representative phases or stages in world-civilization, rather than epochs in the history of one or two chosen peoples; and the ethical element has become, from an extraneous addition, the core and essential spirit of the whole. 1 A specimen of a school programme devised for the German common schools will be helpful in appreciating this important distinction. The following is by Ziller: ? First School Year: Folklore Stories, from Grimm. Second School Year: Robinson Crusoe, by Defoe. Third School Year: History of the Patriarchs; Heroic Age of Germany, and Thuringian Nibelungen Myths. Fourth School Year: Heroic Times of the Hebrews; Moses and the Judges; History of the German Kings. Fifth School Year: The Davidic Kingdom, and the History of Germany from Barbarossa to Rudolph von Hapsburg. Sixth School Year: The life of Jesus, and the Prophets; History of the Reformation, and Frederick the Great. Seventh School Year: History of the Apostles; Secular History of Antiquity. Eighth School Year: Final Repetition or Review of the Catechism; History of the War for Freedom. Part II, containing the Outlines for the work actually to be done...