Education and social progress

Morgan Alexander 1860-

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EDUCATION AND SOCIAL PEOGEESSBY THE SAME AUTHOR
ELEMENTARY PHYSIOGRAPHY
Treated Experimentally
With 4 Maps and 243 Diagrams
Crown 8vo. 25. 6d.
PHYSIOGRAPHYADVANCED
IllustrationsWith 215
4«. 6d.
,Crown 8vo.
LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO.
Calcutta, and Madras.London, New York, Bombay,EDUCATION
AND
SOCIAL PROGRESS
BY
ALEXANDER MORGAN
F.R.S.E.M.A., D.Sc,
PRINCIPAL OF THE PEOVINCIAL TRAINING COLLEGE, EDINBURGH
LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO.
ROW, LONDON39 PATERNOSTER
NEWFOURTH AVENUE & 30TH STREET, YORK
CALCUTTA, AND MADRASBOMBAY,
1916
A.II rightt reserved.PREFACE
question. Atno previousThis is the age of the Social
the needs and problems of society beentime have
more keenly felt or more earnestly faced. Our social
problems are spiritual and ethical as well as economic.
deahng with them two objects must always beIn
kept in view: one is the improvement of the economic
conditions of the people, and the other, and no less
important, the improvement of personal character.
that pre-Social workers have been slow to reahse
is cure, that the child is thevention better than and
centre of the social problem and our strong hope of
its ultimate solution. We have been devoting too
much attention little to the young.to adults and too
The writer contain much wisdom :words of an old
' Barren land should not be cultivated, nor even once
'ploughed ; or, as amodem writer even more pointedly
' diseasedputs it, Too much money is spent upon the
twig.'tree, not enough upon the growing
Let us honestly face the fact that we cannot do
much to modify the lives and characters of the adults
we canof the community who have gone astray, but
do a great mental, and moraldeal to bring physical,
health into the lives of the children, and to give scope
of theto their infinite potentialities for the good
children in thenation. Think of the fifteen millionvi PREFACE
country under fourteen years of age. The whole
gamut of human capacity must be represented there,
and lying latent in them is the collective power, if
properly developed, to make our country the happiest
and most prosperous of nations. Hence workers for
social amelioration are concentrating their energies
more on the training and education of the child than
any other form of social endeavour.on
Education, not in the old narrow sense of school
teaching, but as comprising all the forces that develop
the powers and form the minds and characters of the
young, is now recognised as the most important
method of social intervention, and the most powerful
means by which democracy can secure the realisation
of its ideals. As a consequence, there is growing up
a new body of educational literature less specialised
in substance and less narrow in aim and interest than
that which has hitherto been common. It is the aim
widerof this volume to present some of those aspects
of education, and to show the part that education,
properly interpreted and exercised, may play in
inremoving the barriers to social progress, and im-
proving the condition of the whole body politic.
I desire to acknowledge my great indebtedness
Mr. Drever, M.A.,to my colleague James B.Sc,
Lecturer in Education, Edinburgh University, for
revising the proofs and making many valuable sug-
in withgestions connection them.
ALEX. MORGAN.
Edinburgh,
November 1915.1,