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At no previous time in the history of this coun112 try has the discussion of educational questions been so serious a preoccupation as it is at present. During the past quarter of a century we have become pretty thoroughly awakened, not so much to the importance of education, which has never been questioned, as to the importance of establishing education upon the right foundation, and of conducting it in accordance with the most enlightened methods. So great a fermentation in so important a department of thought is, of course, a desirable thing, even It is if its blessings be not wholly unmixed. well occasionally to shake off our torpor, to get out of ruts, to avoid stagnation at almost any cost. But such a condition of intellectual unrest, such a determination to reexamine the old grounds of the faith, is always fraught with the danger that we may, in our haste to make all things new, sweep away the good with the bad, and discard some of the fundamental principles of the philosophy of a sound education. 120 122 123 124 124 Many zealous advocates of what they are pleased to call "the new education" are so thoroughgoing in their notions that the temperate onlooker is compelled to view their proposed policy somewhat askance. They would |