Excerpt from Progress and Educational PerspectiveDr. Knight writes with a sledge hammer upon an anvil. The obvious fact of change in the world has in recent years been asserted with such pedagogical pontificality as to give it the glamour of fresh discovery. He declares, In times of emergency, economic or military, it is not the function of sound education to change its aims. Its task is to do better what it is expected to do anyway, to serve as a stabilizing in¿uence, to emphasize more strongly permanent values in human life. This statement will, of course, be challenged by modernists and they will demand that Dr. Knight name the permanent values he would emphasize. But there will be many othersto nod approval when they read that educa tional theory in the United States today is hospitable to every wind of pedagogical doctrine, tends to be formless and planless, to trust to faith or hope or charity or luck for 'outcomes' and 'end products', and seems allergic to con stants in human life. Whether one agrees with Dr. Knight or not, one will be enlivened by the vigor and pace of his style and stirred by his bit ing criticism of quantity and numerical criteria of educational progress. Real educational prog ress must be measured in brains rather than bricks.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.