Intellectual Education (Notas de estudio 11.8.20)

Source: Herbert Spencer, ch. 2 in Education: Intellectual, Moral, and Physical (A. L. Curt Company, Publishers, 1891) 5-93.

Concepts

• The unfolding mind
• Natural process of mental evolution
• Psychology
• Organization of knowledge
• A culture of the powers of observation
• Object-lessons
• Self-education
• Self-sufficingness
• Development of the faculties
• Unconscious learning
• (Guidance and discipline)
• Early civilization of the child
• Early civilization of the race
• ‘Unhelped’
• Self-development
• The empirical
• The rational
• Self-evolution
• Self-instruction
• Self-mastered
• Moral development
• Happiness
• Gratification
• (Lifelong learning)
• Self-culture

Inventory of Questions

• What is the relationship between the systems of education and the social states which they have co-existed?
• What political trends favor better educational practices?
• What is the role of dissent in education?
• What are the differences between the education of the past and the education of the present?
• What is the old approach to teaching language?
• What is the role of grammar in education?
• What is the importance of the element of observation in education?
• Why should the individual learn in the order that the race learned the Sciences?
• How do abstractions become relevant in the learning of the child?
• What is the role of the pleasure-pain mechanism in learning?
• What is the importance of curriculum?
• What would be a possible objection to freedom of action in education?