Fiske, John, 1842-1901 / 2008-06-19 00:00:00
EBOOK THE MEANING OF INFANCY ***
Produced by Al Haines
Riverside Educational Monographs
EDITED BY HENRY SUZZALLO
PRESIDENT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON
SEATTLE, WASHINGTON
THE MEANING OF INFANCY
BY
JOHN FISKE
1883
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
I. THE MEANING OF INFANCY
From "Excursions of an Evolutionist"
II. THE PART PLAYED BY INFANCY IN THE EVOLUTION OF MAN
From "A Century of Science"
OUTLINE
INTRODUCTION
The new significance of education
The last century has witnessed an unprecedented development in the
significance of education. One direct consequence has been an
increased reverence for childhood. In this movement which has
increased the dignity of children and schools, two large forces
have been at work,--one social and the other scientific. The
growth of the democratic spirit among men and institutions has made
the education of children a public necessity, and lifted the school
to a position of high social importance. The application of the
theory of evolution to man and his life has revealed human infancy
as one of the largest factors making for the superiority of man in
the struggle for existence, and given to childhood a vast
biological importance. The necessities of democracy and the truths
of science, acting more or less independently of each other, have
given to education a breadth of meaning which it did not possess
before.
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