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Excerpt from Investigations of the Departments of Psychology and Education of the University of Colorado
With the present number, Volume I of the Investigations is concluded.
The first number on Medical Inspection of Schools endeavored to pre sent the data on this subject in as complete a manner as possible. The work accomplished along this line in European countries and in America amply justifies the reform movement begun in all our progressive schools. The information gathered from every available source will, we hope, prove of much assistance to Superintendents and Principals who desire to introduce medical inspection into their school systems.
The second number, dealing principally with the Survival Values of Play, is an attempt to arrive at the scientific value of play. Its place as an essential factor of the school curriculum can be regarded as once and for all time firmly established. Indirectly this investigation of play phenomena is an attempt to substitute scientific investigation for sectarianism in the field of pedagogy. Herbartianism and Froebellianism are interesting as histor ica'l stages, but can be regarded only as creeds more or less outworn. The second part of the same number dealt with the statistics of the growth and development of education in the Western States of the Union. Its rapid growth, its solid support on the part of the people, and its thoroughly demo cratic character were clearly evidenced by the facts adduced.
The third number dealt with the in?uence of various sociological and psychological movements on education. It was in a way a resume of educa tional progress for the year, not from an administrative but from a scientific standpoint.
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