Chapter XVIII

AUTOMATIC CONTRASTED WITH SCIENTIFIC EDUCATION.

The Past tyrannizes over the Present by Interposing the Stolid
Resistance of Habit. -- Habits of Thought like Habits of the Body
become Automatic. -- There is much Freedom of Speech but very little
Freedom of Thought: Habit, Tradition, and Reverence for Antiquity
forbid it. -- The Schools educate Automatically. -- A glaring Defect
of the Schools shown by Mr. John S. Clark, of Boston. -- The Automatic
Character of the Popular System of Education shown by the Quincy
(Mass.) Experiment. -- Several Intelligent Opinions to the same
Effect. -- The Public Schools as an Industrial Agency a Failure. -- A
Conclusive Evidence of the Automatic and Superficial Character of
prevailing Methods of Education in the Schools of a large City. -- The
Views of Colonel Francis W. Parker. -- Scientific Education is found
in the Kindergarten and the Manual-training School. -- “The
Cultivation of Familiarity betwixt the Mind and Things.” 191

CHAPTER XIX.

AUTOMATIC CONTRASTED WITH SCIENTIFIC EDUCATION -- _Continued._

The Failure of Education in America shown by Statistics of Railway and
Mercantile Disasters. -- Shrinkage of Railway Values and Failures of
Merchants. -- Only Three per Cent. of those entering Mercantile Life
achieve Success. -- Business Enterprises conducted by Guess: Cause,
Unscientific Education. -- Savage Training is better because
Objective. -- Mr. Foley, late of the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, on the Scientific Character of Manual Education -- Prof.
Goss, of Purdue University, to the same Effect -- also Dr. Belfield,
of the Chicago Manual-training School. -- Students love the Laboratory
Exercises. -- Demoralizing Effect of Unscientific Training. -- The
Failure of Justice and Legislation as contrasted with the Success of
Civil Engineering and Architecture. 210