The Normal Training of the Child (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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The subject has three key words. These will be used to unlock the doors into our house of study. What we say will be directly related to these words education, the child, the Bible School. It is not the province of this lecture to deal primarily and fundamentally with the educational problem. And yet when we would talk or write suggestively and intelligently of the child, and the child's relation to the school, the thought of education becomes close, vital and necessary. We must also realize that the child was not made for the school but the school for the child. And the natural and normal answer for the school's existence is for the purpose of edu cation. What then is the function of education? Education, says President Butler, of Columbia, is the adaptation of a person, a self-conscious be ing, to environment and the development of capacity in a person to modify or control that environment. It is first a matter of principles and second a matter of methods. To prepare us for complete living is the function which education has to discharge.

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