RT Journal
A1 MILLS L
T1 THe functions of the eyes in the acquisition of an education
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1929
FD September 14
VO 93
IS 11
SP 841
OP 845
DO 10.1001/jama.1929.02710110027008
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1929.02710110027008
AB "We must not hurry. We have not a moment to lose.""Le trop de promptitude à l'erreur nous expose."—Molière.The opinion that the high-speed methods of modern education demand modification and humanizing is being asserted with increasing vigor and scope. Gilbert Chesterton piquantly remarks that "to say that moderns are half-educated may seem to be too complimentary by half, but the nuisance is that they get the last half and not the first. They do not know the elements of anything but only the ends of everything." W. S. Thayer1 emphasizes this prevalent belief when he speaks of "the fault which is commonest in all our American education; namely, the attempt to give a smattering of many things at the expense of the foundations." The father of six children, from college to primary age, said to me: "I am amazed at the tremendous whirl of activity in school