Oppositions and Antinomies of Modern Educational Reality

Modern Educational Experiments, IV

The children for the class are selected from classes 2, 3 and 5, their ages ranging from approximately 9 to 11. All are suffering from retardation, in some form or other. On the roll of the class there are 35 children, though it is realised that 25 would be a more satisfactory number. Practical methods of teaching are used wherever possible, and handwork is used both as a subject and a method. ...

Modern Educational Experiments, V

‘Reality’ in modern physics

The Copenhagen interpretation According to modern physics, the world is made up from small bits of energy, called ‘quanta’. Each object in the world is a quantum system, made up of individual quanta acting together. In effect, this is like saying that the world and its objects are made up of interacting particles, except that quanta are not quite particles. The trouble is that quanta sometimes ...

Modern Educational Experiments, II

Modern Educational Experiments III

The school works in co-operation with an Educational Clinic to which all cases of backwardness in the Elementary Schools of the City are referred. The majority of the children are suffering from emotional difficulties due in large measure to environmental causes. There is the nervous child who has fallen behind through fear of failure, the resentful child who may become delinquent, the child wi...