The school and the family; the ethics of school relations

John Kennedy

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• School discipline

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• Langue: English
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LIBRARY
OF THE
OF CALIFORNIA.UNIVERSITY
l8IAN 9Deceived 4 1893
. X 0. o. . Class No .^Accessions No *4QADD THE FAMILYTHE SCHOOL
THE ETHICS OF SCHOOL RELATIONS
Br JOHN KENNEDY
INSTRUCTOR IX TEACHERS' INSTITUTES
NEW YORK
HARPER & PUBLISHERSBROTHERS,
FKANKLIN SQUAREEntered to Act of in theaccording Congress, year 1878, by
&HARPER BROTHERS,
atLibrarian of Washington.In the Office of the Congress,PREFACE.
THE doctrine of this treatise was embodied
"
in a entitled The ofpaper Philosophy
School read before the NewDiscipline,"
York State Teachers' Association at Pitts-
K 1877. Theburgh, Y., July 25th, paper
was received thefavorably by Association,
and was afterwards inpublished pamphlet
form in order to it to the careful
subject
examination and criticism of the education-
al public.
""
of the haveMany opinions Philosophy
been received from educational au-
leading
thorities. Those while
opinions, pronounc-
the doctrine sound and its formulas use-ingIV PREFACE.
re-have beenful, accompanied by urgent
elaborate discussion of thefor a more
quests
laid down and it is in
; compli-principles
that theance with these requests present
work is undertaken.
that there ex-The author believesfully
in materials for aist the nature of things
of School If this workScience Discipline.
should fail of scientific and com-accuracy
he trusts that it at least have
pleteness, may
the effect of and hasten-
stimulating inquiry,
the time when we shall have an authen-ing
tic science of this Pieimportant subject.
is from extended observation inconvinced,
of the foremost states in themany Union,
that the educational of this nation isenergy
from a vicious We seesuffering empiricism.
inmuch abroad the andguess-work land,
without uniform-many haphazard ventures,
of and without reality thought, consequently
progress.