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THE MODERN EDUCATOR'S LIBRARYGeneral Editor.—Prof. A.A. COCK.
By
E.R. Murray
Vice-Principal Maria Grey Training College
Author Of "Froebel As A Pioneer In Modern Psychology," Etc.
Henrietta Brown Smith
Lecturer In Education, University Of London, Goldsmiths' College
Editor Of "Education By Life"
"Is it not marvellous that an infant should be the heir of the whole world, and see those mysteries which the books of the learned never unfold? I knew by intuition those things which since my apostasy I collected again by highest reason."
1920
The following volumes are now ready, and others are in preparation:—
Education: Its Data and First Principles. By T.P. NUNN, M.A.,
D.Sc., Professor of Education in the University of London.
Moral and Religious Education. By SOPHIE BRYANT, D.Sc., Litt.D.,late Headmistress, North London Collegiate School for Girls.
The Teaching of Modern Foreign Languages in School and University.
By H.G. ATKINS, Professor of German in King's College, London; and H.L.
HUTTON, Senior Modern Language Master at Merchant Taylors' School.
The Child under Eight. By E.R. MURRAY, Vice-Principal, Maria Grey
Training College, Brondesbury; and HENRIETTA BROWN SMITH, L.L.A.,
Lecturer in Education, Goldsmiths' College, University of London.
The Organisation and Curricula of Schools. By W.G. SLEIGHT, M.A.,
D.Lit, Lecturer at Greystoke Place Training College, London.
The Modern Educator's Library has been designed to give consideredexpositions of the best theory and practice in English education ofto-day. It is planned to cover the principal problems of educationaltheory in general, of curriculum and organisation, of some unexhaustedaspects of the history of education, and of special branches of appliededucation.
The Editor and his colleagues have had in view the needs of youngteachers and of those training to be teachers, but since the school andthe schoolmaster are not the sole factors in the educative process, itis hoped that educators in general (and which of us is not in some senseor other an educator?) as well as the professional schoolmaster may findin the series some help in understanding precept and practice ineducation of to-day and to-morrow. For we have borne in mind not onlywhat is but what ought to be. To exhibit the educator's work as avocation requiring the best possible preparation is the spirit in whichthese volumes have been written.
No artificial uniformity has been sought or imposed, and while theEditor is responsible for the series in general, the responsibility forthe opinions expressed in each volume rests solely with its author.
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