Article June 8, 1918 Issue

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with contributions from James A. Ludlow, Helen Bosanquet, L. C. E. Cartwright

[Dr. James A. Ludlow in Record of Christian Work]

A change is taking place in the ideal of education as popularly held. Its purpose has been too strictly limited to the advantage of the individual pupil, his mental enrichment and his efficiency in securing personal advancement in life. We are now thinking more of the relation of the individual to society, his place as a member of the body politic. To this we are driven partly by the exigencies of the day. Even the crudest observer realizes that in our times "no man liveth unto himself." Hence in some of our states it is required that high school pupils study community civics, and the problems of modern democracy, such as politics and sociology. The new movement is also due to a better understanding of the psychology of the individual, which clearly points to social influences as most strongly affecting personality and character.

[Helen Bosanquet in The Hibbert Jouranal]

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