A NEW BOOK BY THE LATE 



FRANCIS A. WALKER 



President of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology 



DISCUSSIONS IN EDUCATION 



Edited by James Phinnev Munroe. 8vo. $3.00, net. 



This volume has been compiled in accordance with the expressed 

 intention of tlie late President Walker to gather together, when 

 opportunity should offer, his addresses and papers relating to educa- 

 tion. His untimely death made it impossible that the work should 

 have hi-i supervision; but nothing of permanent interest that he 

 wrote upon this subject has been omitted, and unity of presentation 

 has beeii secured by grouping the papers under the four hfads : 

 Technological Education; Technical Education; The Teachingof 

 Arithmetic; and College Problems. 



While dealing with professional problems, the author's style is 

 never technical, but so fresh and incisive and so broad in treatment, 

 that this volume has an interest almost as great lor the ordinary 

 reader as for the student of education. 



The period covered by these addresses is practically thiit of Genera! 

 Walker's magnificent service as President of the Massachusetts In- 

 stitiite of Technology, and the questions discussed were in the main 

 suggested hy the extraordinary jjrowth of that college under his 

 administration. The scope and dignity of technological education, 

 its relation to other forms of culture and to secondary teaching, are 

 strongly presented ; the uses and limits of manual training receive 

 ample treatment; while the specific question of college athletics, 

 of the teaching of arithmetic, of the study of statistics, of normal 

 training, etc., are discussed with President Walker's customary 

 vigor of thought and clearness of style. 



Contents 



Technological Education. — Immediate Problems in Technologi- 

 cal Education. The Rise and Importance of Applied Science in 

 American Education. The Technical School and the University, 

 The Relation of Professional and Technical to General Education. 

 Technological and 1 echnical Education. The Problem of "' Eng- 

 lish" in Schools of Technology. 



Manual Education. — Industrial Education. A Plea for Indus- 

 trial Education in the Public Schools. Manual Education in Urban 

 Communities. The Relation of Manual Training to Certain Mental 

 Defects. 



The Teaching of Arithmetic. — Arithmetic in the Primary and 

 Grammar Schools. Arithmetic in the Boston Schools, 



CoLLRGK Problkms. — College Athletics. The Study of Statistics 

 in Colleges and 1 echnical Schools. Normal Training in Women's 

 Colleges The Secondary Schools and Higher Education. 



A Valedictory. An Index. 



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