Whatever be its effect, it is educative in so far as its form has been arranged with greater or less deliberation by those who are concerned with the training of him whose experience it is.
The first essential for successful educativeeffort is, then, that the community as a whole should have a true estimate of the nature and value of education.
So some ages will show a relatively fixed conception of the educative process, others will be times of unrest and change in this as in other modes of social and intellectual life.
The work of the organization of the material means of education has largely been accomplished by the civilized world: that of determining the true theory and practice of the educative process itself is still incomplete.
For change in culture ideals means change in the specific form of the goal of education, and consequently the paths of educative effort need readjustment.
As these rise or fall the general level of the actual educative practice rises or sinks with them.
When this is not secured, the educational domain is liable to sudden and violent revolutions which are destructive of successful educative effort at the time they occur, however beneficial their results may be in the future.
Show how the revival of commerce was an educative and a civilizing influence of large importance.
The press in England in consequence became an educative force of great intellectual and political importance, and did much to compensate for the lack of a general system of schools for the people.
It is a fact of singular interest that every human being born into the world must independently go through practically the same educative processes from childhood to maturity.
Can any one assert that the kind of grind required, with its heavy taxation of the memory, is in most cases really educative or confers culture?
It may further be argued (a) that Esperanto is educative in the real sense of the word, i.
Culture, if it is to be genuinely educative and not an external polish or factitious varnish, represents the vital union of information and discipline.
Discipline is genuinely educative only as it represents a reaction of information into the individual's own powers so that he brings them under control for social ends.
Information is genuine or educative only in so far as it presents definite images and conceptions of materials placed in a context of social life.
It endeavors to fill one full of life, and human experience during the educative process.
Nevertheless, they are one of the factors and are connected with the educative process in such a way that any endeavor similar to the present one must consider them.
These queries are necessary to find the part which intellectual knowledge plays in the educative process, in behalf of religious education.
Without insight into the psychological structure and activities of the individual, the educative processes will, therefore, be haphazard and arbitrary.
Reaching wrong or partial conclusions and correcting them may be made even more educative than reaching right ones at the outset.
Every laboratory exercise should be aneducative situation calling for a complete mental reaction from the pupil.
These may be gained in part by furnishing really educativesituations and observing the time and character of the student's reaction.
The decorations of the walls and ceilings are, to a remarkable degree, both educative and ornamental.
From these premises we must deduce, that all educative work in the proper sense, is a religious activity, which makes us better acquainted with the relations which exist, between man and his Creator, the Great Over Soul.
The interiors of both factory and workshop, have been made additionally attractive, by a more artistic, educative class of decorations.
The educative value of the instruction card will be discussed at length under Teaching.
The educative value of the worker's making his own records has never been sufficiently appreciated.
The greater the perfection of the detail of the instruction card, the greater the educative value of this plan of management.
The tour was, as Jeremiah designed, educative to both, and it broadened and deepened their mutual sympathies.
It is from the early pioneer epoch and the colonial history that we derive much of our best educative history.
We hardly need to dwell upon the idea that the old heroic myths are the delight of boys and girls, and that this sympathy for the myth is the foundation of its educative power.
There is encouragement in the fact that many teachers fully appreciate the worth of these writers, and have succeeded in making their works beautiful and educative to the children.
The old historical ballads and traditions have great educative value.
But enough has been said to remind teachers of this rich treasure house of educative materials.
The thought of theeducative power of this ancestral literature has been forcibly expressed by many eminent writers.
The human element in letters is the source of its deep and lasting power; the human element in children is the centre of their educative life, and he who disregards this and thinks only of intellectual exercises is a poor machine.
Two particular phases of this educative power should be specifically mentioned.
And, secondly, the subjective emotion in ourselves is educative in the point that by this outlet we go out of ourselves in sympathy, lose our egoism, and become one with man in general.
The educative Act of 1891 for British India has also been noted above.
Or take another example of the educative effect of a study of English--I can vouch for its genuineness.
The culture epochs supply the nucleus of materials for moral-educative purposes.
In behalf of character development, which is the ultimate aim of all educative effort, pedagogy requires of instruction that it aid in forming the unity of the personality, the most primitive basis of character.
History and natural science, on the contrary, having the richest knowledge content, constitute a natural center for all educative efforts.
The culture epochs are expected to contribute powerfully to both concentration and interest; to the former by supplying a series of rallying-points for educative effort, to the latter by furnishing matter suited to interest children.
Another valuable educative result of apperception, cultivated in this manner, is a consciousness of power which springs from the ability to make a good use of our knowledge.
But this must be a genuine and permanent interest to be ofeducative value.
It will be well for us to look into our own history and see what sort of a moral heritage of educative materials it has left us.
For moral educative purposes in the training of the young the history of America, from the early explorations and settlements along the Atlantic coast to the present, has scarcely a parallel in history.
The Jewish and German historical materials, which are made the moral-educative basis of the common school course by the Herbartians, can be of no service to us except by way of example.
Has the English-speaking race in North America passed through a series of historical epochs which, on account of their moral-educative worth, deserve to stand in the center of a common school course?
Nevertheless, the Yiddish press, particularly the Socialistic branch of it, is an educative element of great value in the Ghetto.
One great advantage of this system of local government is its educativeeffect upon the citizens.
Another merit claimed for the referendum is its educative effect upon the electorate.
To make a workable railway signal is more interesting and much more educative than to use one that came from a shop.
We may do well to amend these laws if in so doing we can incorporate useful labor into the educative process.
A portion of these directions follows: Surely wood and metal work have not the monopoly of the educative value in manual operations.
In the second place, it is doubtful whether we can much longer continue the policy of increasing the regular attendance of youth at school without giving some consideration to the educative value of labor.
The educative process taken in its largest sense goes on for twenty-four hours a day.
Those to whom the thought of training the young in the carrying of arms is repugnant may here see the educative value of universal service.
Furthermore, why not find some way of bringing agriculture into the educative process of the city boy?
In the first place, children like to work, that is, outside of school, and these work impulses of youth ought to be organized to contribute to the educative process.
To them, to increase the number of years that youth is obliged to go to school is to increase the number of years given over directly to the educative process.
To most people theeducative process merely centers around the schoolhouse, and such think of education in terms of schooling.
The educative value of profitable labor need not be lost.
