Show A RECENT issue of The Educational A Review contains an article entitled Is Is There a New Education by Professor Pro Pro- fessor Nicholas fessor-Nicholas Nicholas Murray Butler Professor Butler thinks thinks' there is a aNew aNew aNew New Education and that it is rapidly gaining ground among the teachers in v t f the elementary schools I particularly in inthe inthe inthe the Western states II But he deplores the fact that secondary schools and colleges colleges colleges col col- leges in general pay little attention to the principles of pedagogy Instructors in h higher gher institutions of learning too often regard these principles as applying applying applying apply apply- ing only to children and under this erroneous erroneous erroneous er er- idea they disregard the laws of mental and moral growth and continue practicing the old old- methods of the M Middle Middle Mid Mid- iddIe id- id dle dIe Ages J 1 1 Professor Butler says t 5 i S 'S In consequence of this we may safely assume assume that pupils fresh from the vigorous intellectual and moral growth of a well-conducted well elementary school will turn aside from front the machine methods and dull uninspiring class exercises of our average academy with disgust Many instructors in higher education turn on and off a 4 certain amount of educational material each day and ac accumulate accumulate accumulate ac- ac cumulate what they are pleased to term experience but their relation to education is just that of the motorman on a trolley-car trolley to the science of electricity The teachers teacher's dealings in the school-room school are primarily with mental processes and mental growth Unless these are scientifically studied and understood or and or-and and this does not happen often unless often unless natural psychological insight comes to the rescue of psychological ignorance the teaching is bound to be mechanical and the longer it is c. c continued the more experience is acquired the more wooden and mechanical it becomes Ar f fi |