Course of Study, Baltimore County, Maryland, Public Schools, Grades I-VIII - Softcover

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919. Excerpt: ... HISTORY: GRAMMAR GRADES THE TEACHING OF HISTORY IN THE GRAMMAR GRADES: SOME SUGGESTIONS A New Point of View. The following excerpts are taken from the chapter "History for the Common Man" in The New History by James Harvey Robinson, published by the Macmillan Company, and used with the permission of the author. In this, our day, science and industry, hand in hand, are playing such important roles that they have revolutionized social, industrial and commercial ways. Professor Robinson discusses the changed and changing interests of the present age and asks of the past an explanation of the present, suggesting the kind of information we need to cull from history to explain why we today are as we are and contrasting it with the useless information we so frequently get from the records of past events: HISTORY OF THE COMMON MAN Should a student of the past be asked what he regarded as the most original and far-reaching discovery of modem times, he might reply with some assurance that it is our growing realization of the fundamental importance and absorbing interest of common men and common things. Our democracy, with all its hopes and aspirations, is based on an appreciation of common men; our science, with all its achievements and prospects, is based on the appreciation of common things. It is our present business to see what can be done for that very large class of boys and girls who must take up the burden of life prematurely and who must look forward to earning their livelihood by the work of their hands. But education has not been wont until recently to reckon seriously with the common man who must do common things. It has presupposed leisure and freedom from the pressing cares of life. This conception can be traced back to the Greeks, who established the...

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