Our Educational Emphases in Primitive Perspective

Modern conceptions of education are contrasted with the primitive emphasis upon the need to learn that which was fixed and traditional, based primarly on the child as the learner. Today, owing to the meeting and mingling of peoples among whom superiority was claimed by one as over against another, our concepts of education have been shaped by the will to teach, colonize, or assimilate adults. From the observation of this process in the next generation we have come also to be believe in the power of education to create something new, not merely perpetuate something old. But not until the dogma of superiority of race over, race, nation, class over class, is obliterated can we hope to combine the primitive idea of the need to learn something old and the modern idea of the possibility of making something new.