Education as a science / by Alexander Bain.

  • Alexander Bain
Date:
1886
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    EDUCATION AS A SCIENCE, CHAPTER I. SCOPE OF THE SCIENCE OF EDUCATION. The scientific treatment of any art consists partly in applying the principles furnished by the several sciences involved, as chemical laws to agriculture; and partly in enforcing, throughout the discussion, the utmost preci- sion and rigour in the statement, deduction and proof of the various maxims or rules that make up the art. Both fecundity in the thoughts and clearness in the directions should attest the worth of the scientific method. DEFINITIONS OF EDUCATION. First, let me quote the definition embodied in the ideal of the founders of the Prussian National System. It is given shortly as ‘ the harmonious and equable evolution of the human powers ; ’ at more length, in the words of Stein, ‘ by a method based on the nature of the mind, every power of the soul to be unfolded, every crude principle of life stirred up and nourished, all one- sided culture avoided, and the impulses on which thS ^ strength and worth of men rest, carefully attended to.’ ^ This definition, which is pointed against narrowness ' Donaldson’s Lectures on Education^ p, 38. B \ V
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