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...General Education Board, which has previously published the ideas of Dr. Abraham Flexner regarding the education of boys and girls, is now to join with Teachers College in putting those ideas into practice. Beginning next fall a number of children will take a course in experimental education of this particular type, for all education is, strictly speaking, an experiment...
This is, approximately, the purpose in view, as we gather it from the announcements of Dr. Flexner and the ex-president of Harvard, Dr. Eliot. Such a purpose is comprehensible and its good points are apparent to anybody, whether or not he believes them sufficiently weighty to form the basis of a new education for youth after the present educational system shall have been swept away as faulty beyond amendment. The present system has not yet been over-thrown, but the attempt to construct a new one before destroying the existing scheme cannot be too highly praised...
...many years Dr. Abraham Flexner has been trying to make a practical experiment of his advanced ideas about modern education. At last the General Education Board has arranged with the Teachers College of Columbia University to create a school for the education of young children according to Dr. Flexner's principles. The New York Times regards this as a most dangerous attack against the present accepted system of education. Whether this experiment will imperil our entire educational structure is a question, but it is a progressive step and one that should be watched with great interest...
They declare that young people "trained in this manner would be as destitute of culture as a Hottentot." In Dr. Flexner's scheme, one of the four fields of instruction is called aesthetics, and under this head comes the study of painting, sculpture, literature, and music. His plan is to give young people the power of appreciating art in its many forms and allow the creative ability to follow or develop naturally. The cultural side of this new plan is not wholly neglected, but approached by the single path of appreciation...
...Abraham Flexner, the distinguished educational expert, has attracted much attention by his attacks on our present educational system, and by his plans for instruction based largely on the training of sense rather than memory, as President Eliot expresses it. It is an interesting idea, already partly introduced in the public schools of Maryland. Dr. Flexner would divide the curriculum into four fields: science, industry, civics and aesthetics, proposing subjects and methods of immediate interest and practical value. Such a basis is surely sound. Every school boy has rebelled at "conjugating dead languages and reciting the imports of Uruguay...