Teaching Manual and Industrial Arts: A Textbook for Normal Schools and Colleges (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Teaching Manual and Industrial Arts: A Textbook for Normal Schools and Colleges

The homely story of the blind men and the elephant well illustrates the attitude one is likely to assume with reference to the beliefs of others educationally, unless he studies dis cerningly. The reader will recall that the blind man who happened to grasp the elephant's ear concluded that elephants were like palm leaf fans; the one who touched the elephant's Side concluded that an elephant was like the side of a wall; the one who grasped the elephant's tail thought elephants were like rope; while the one who happened to clasp his arms about the elephant's leg was certain elephants were like tree trunks. Each was right in SO far as he had informed himself of a part of the body; he was wrong in his hasty or impartial generalization as to the likeness of the whole body. In edu cation we shall do well to refrain from hasty generalizations that the whole body of educational need is like that with which we have informed ourselves and like that alone.

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