Education (Volume 13) (Paperback)

Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1892. Excerpt: ... for their " collection," will scarcely justify the victimizing of children for the sake of psychological experiments. Such motives destroy their own ends, for they will no more unfold a child than " play open sesame " with the true inwardness of nature. A beautiful bud was recently plucked from a far southern Magnolia, and sent north for a love token. It was put in temperate water, in the sunny window. After a few days an outside petal dropped off on the floor. It was put in cooler water away from the glass. Again a petal fell, and each new experiment, however sincere and zealous, but stripped the bud of its petals. In time the heart of it was almost bare, -- we could look into its very core, -- but there was neither beauty nor satisfaction. The teacher who takes all the tools of his profession into his class room, and leaves the humanity behind him, has no more salutary influence than this upon the child. The bud true to itself will refuse to open. He may in time probe the inmost sensitiveness of the boy or girl, may even write a valuable treatise of his psychological observations, but his price has been a lost opportunity to lend the vital impulse and inspiration which that child has a right to expect of him. Is the price commensurate to the commodity? OCTOBER /, 1892. ALICE GORDON GULICK, SPAIN. THIS is a memorable date in the history of the higher education of girls in Spain; a day to be marked in special and grateful remembrance in the Calendar of this school. An invitation was received from the Seiior Director of the Institute of Guipuzcoa to be present at the ceremonies connected with the annual opening of the Institute, and also a request that the girls who were to receive prizes should present themselves at the same time. After the special individual examinations last June, ...