Word: adjustable
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...essential feature of all recent school reforms--or with a less question-begging title, school experiments or deteriorations--has been the tendency towards elective studies. We have on one side the desire to adjust the school work to the final purposes of the individual in practical life; which means beginning professional preparation in that period which has up to this time been given up to liberal education. We have on the other side the desire to adjust the school-work to the innate talents and likings of the individual; which means giving in the school-work no place to that...