In the Service of Youth: Chapters on Certain Phases of the Teaching of English in Junior and Senior High Schools (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Excerpt from In the Service of Youth: Chapters on Certain Phases of the Teaching of English in Junior and Senior High Schools

The contents of this book are based in considerable part upon lectures delivered by the author to teacher-students at Johns Hopkins University and at the College of the City of New York, in 1922 and 1923; and upon articles that have appeared from time to time in educational periodicals, definite place ment of which is given at various points throughout the text. Both lectures and articles have been thoroughly reworked in some cases condensed, in others elaborated, in all revised.

The book represents an attempt to suggest methodology for the classroom teaching of certain phases of English work in junior and senior high schools. It is in the main a how-to-do book, but there is some theory presented as suitable basis, it is hoped, for the concretization of method and practice.

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Excerpt from In the Service of Youth: Chapters on Certain Phases of the Teaching of English in Junior and Senior High Schools

Aristotle said: Those virtues must necessarily be the greatest which are the most useful to others. Thus virtue may run the risk Of becoming its own greatest detriment! Alack the day when we might consider education a little for the sake of education alone. Useless education may be quite as useful as useful education is useless. As soon as we are obliged to focus education toward a definite utilitarian end, regardless of all other considerations, we say adieu to learning and au revoir to ideals; we make education scheming and opportunistic.

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Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.