Building Up a School Spirit
Abstract
The great social and industrial changes within the past century, with the accompanying development of city life, have thrown a new responsibility upon the school for the proper education of the young in much that makes for useful and successful living in organised society. The home has undergone great changes in nature and spirit and purpose, while both life and education have become specialised. In consequence, the home today leaves to the school a large amount of training which once formed no part of the function or purpose of the school. The modern city la essentially a center of trade and industry, and home life and home conditions must inevitably be determined by this fact. The city, too, emphasises education through the eye and the ear, but gives little through actual doing. Children under the older home conditions, too, were taught reverence, courtesy, respect, proper demeanor, obedience, honesty, fidelity, virtue and useful employments much more than they are today. The coming to our cities of large numbers of foreign born children, and especially those from the south of Europe, has further complicated the educational problem.
Subject Area
Educational psychology|Education
Recommended Citation
Hogan, Rose M, "Building Up a School Spirit" (1929). ETD Collection for Fordham University. AAI31189762.
https://research.library.fordham.edu/dissertations/AAI31189762
