Education Mosaics. A Collection from Many Writers ( Chiefly Modern) of Thoughts Bearing on Educational Questions of the Day

This is not a pedagogical encyclopedia in any sense of the word and does not claim to provide comprehensive information in any direction. This is far from a systematic treatise on education; On the contrary, the author sought to avoid any rigid philosophical convention and deliberately omitted any bibliographic or biographical notes as alien to its simple character and purpose. An author cannot claim that every good writer is represented or that everyone is represented by their best. Everything that is stated in relation to this volume is that everything in it is worth reading. Those familiar with educational literature will recognize many familiar paragraphs and favorite passages. Those who do not have the opportunity, time or desire to read numerous essays on education, and who still want to learn a thing or two about the movement of educational thought, will find a short compass here. Those who love beautiful thoughts on great themes will find many of these in these mosaics. Teachers who have a few minutes of leisure interspersed with hard hours of toil will find many to be interesting, comforting, stimulating and helpful. Although specially designed for teachers, it is full of questions that will make smart parents and anyone interested in the greatest living question of all, the proper education of America's ten million young people who are taught the responsibilities, pleasures, and privileges of life in public schools in their private lives.