Show Reviews Cause and Effect In Education MUCH has been said and written on this subject of late but nothing that f has come come- cometo corneto to our notice has contained more forceful argument than Mr C. C Hanford Hendersons Henderson's paper in the Popular Science Monthly llly for May An ability to reconcile our beliefs is the 4 true test of intelligence True sciences 1 never conflict with each other and if tt we are to make education a science we must recognize the fact that the law of ofF F cause and effect holds here as elsewhere Doubtless as this writer says this law lawA A has always been recognized but educators educators educators tors have continually assigned wrong y causes and to this source may be be ascribed the many mistakes of education past and present II With religion and ethics sociology and biology in a state ti of incoherence and it was manifestly impossible for education to tobe tobe be he rational But with the tile foundation sciences reduced to order we may hope that this rationalism will be established We may hope th that t in the near future 4 r not only in the school but in the home horne the nature of the mind and the manner t of its development will be understood i and that we will no longer ascribe the results of our indolence and ignorance I to a mysterious providence |