Creative re-education / by Frederick Peterson.

  • Frederick Peterson
Date:
1936
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Credit: Creative re-education / by Frederick Peterson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    sands of boys he had never found a really dull one, one who would not fit into some form of cooperative work and do well his part. 1 he old schooling has had relation to domi- nance of the leisure class even down to the pres- ent day, and the result has been, learning, not doing, with the result of tragic waste in the de- velopment of the potentialities existing in every growing child. The creative urge is repressed by a formalism unrelated to life. Latent talent should be sought for in the school and the school of the future must be so “spacious” as to mirror all the life of the world. It must be a microcosm. It must have such varieties of all the occupations going on in the world about it that it must in- evitably awaken interests of one kind or another in the pupils and so bring out the latent trends and callings that exist in each individual. These interests are like little buds about the threshold of consciousness, appearing from time to time, not always present, but ready for flowering at any moment when the conditions are propitious for an efflorescence. These buds may be near the surface at all periods of life, but are more numer- ous, more ready to bloom, in early youth and adolescence. And this is the time when formal- istic education is poured into our youth, instead of a system of drawing out the free potentialities of the young mind, eager to do, to search, to understand, to create. All the old memorizing of abstract matter is drudgery, and in most schools
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