Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Annual Report on Study Clubs, 1899
Now that it is admitted that the condition of a progressive civilization Is a system of education that is both scientific and general, is it not easily recognizable that the years devoted to the formal education must 'be prefaced and supplemented by systems quite as thorough and just as clearly defined as those that prevail during the school life of the individual? Of these supplementary systems the first must be initiated in the home, while the second can be carried forward only through the stim ulus afforded by an intelligent and cooperative social spirit. The act of living is in itself the most impontant natural educa tional process with which the human body has to do, and since the life process is one continuous Whole, certainly the forces directing this process must form one interrupted series - the breaks marking but the passage of one state into another. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
