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...Roger Ascham, 16th century English educationalist who condemned flogging in schools, was author of The Scholcmaster ("a plaine and perfite way of teaching children to understand, write and speake in Latin long...
...desirable equipment ; a staff of trained teachers under the direction of experts; time enough to fulfill its task in a dignified, adequate manner; a twelve-year course of study; . . . the almost unanimous co-operation of parents; . . . a pastor of great comprehension (himself a doctor of philosophy and a trained educationalist) who makes the Sunday School his deepest interest...
This school, which enrolls 1,000 youngsters, meets for 50-minute periods including a five-minute sermon by the pastor. Its professional teaching staff includes a psychiatrist, a psychologist, a religious educationalist. Its curriculum is full and varied. Outside the classroom its children visit social service agencies, put on plays, write essays on Peace, study local politics...
...Matthew Arnold did in 1851, holds an appointment as one of His Majesty's inspectors at the Board of Education. In 1924, he was lent by the Board of Education to investigate and report on the educational system of Egypt and the Sudan. Hitherto a better known educationalist than writer, he has published three volumes of verse; edited, in 1912, The Works of Thomas Deloney. Albert Grope is the September selection of the Book League of America...
...Prof. Hanus' interesting lecture on Comenius last night, must have been struck by the fact that, though speaking of a man who lived three hundred years ago the lecturer introduced ideas and theories of education, which are today the very backbone of the systems advocated by the leading educationalist of the day. Comenius was essentially a man far ahead of his times. He recognized, and this is what Harvard is trying to improve upon the public today, that a system of teaching must be a natural one; that the greatest good cannot be gotten out of a man's mind...