Show STUDENT LIFE 102 tEfje ipace of &rt aub iHanual draining in 0ur ikboote or moulded into any form at the will of the teacher and environment The conceptions of the child as a living active being is the product of comparatively modern thought This has led reformers in education to claim the best results in education can only be reached by utilizing the spontaneous activities of the child These vav may be enumerated as follows: first social interest or interest in There are three factors in education the complex resources of language second artistic activimature social life the immature ties or interest in expression third curiosity or interest in experiment being or child and the school Education of the past has shown how exploring etc fourth interest in the emphasizing of either of these the manipulation of materials of factors has led to the development the subjecting of the external or of different educational theory physical world and fifth interest The aims of all education center in construction or arranging planin one or both of two things the ning composing etc In the first is seen the desire of individual and some form of social the child or individual to comefficiency The two great conceptions of municate with his fellows — silence The child is no longer a virtue modem thought are that of genershould be given every opportual progress and of the child Education consists in harmonizing these nity to communicate his thoughts two In times past the child was spontaneously In the second we find those aclooked upon as a passive something to be filled with knowledge tivities which have not only been The desire of every honest and progressive person should be to make the world better for his havThe process of ing lived in it living in the best way is the aim of education Every phase of life mav be said to be education We no longer maintain that education consists in scholastic training but living and striving to live in a better |