Excerpt from Seven Factors of Education Our shelves are loaded with the books of unlearned men. I have in mind two remarkably original works of recent times; they have justly brought their authors great renown, yet they both fail at the critical point, where the authors extend from their specialties and attempt to reach out for broader conclu sions in neighboring fields of knowledge - conclusions which are rendered totally invalid, almost ridiculous, thru deficiency in biological and anthropological learning. Learning necessarily occupies a vast amount of time, and it is a false modernism which depreciates its place in education. How near-sighted are certain reactions against it; how absurd the fads of certain ultra-modern schools; how out of time the premature exclusive specialization; how inadequate the extreme laboratory system even in the university, how futile to attempt to educate exclusively thru research. 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.