Education for self-realisation and social service

ABSTRACT UNDER the title of “The New Humanist Series,” with Mr. Benchara Branford as editor, the University of London Press is projecting a series of volumes in which “the most modern

advances of knowledge will be sought in order to fructify the many and varied fields of education. The subjects of the curriculum will be discussed by experts not too far removed by time

from their own school years.” These will be preceded by general volumes, of which the present book is the first. The treatment is adequate, and may be profitably compared with that of Prof.

Nunn in the opening volume of another educational series. Without neglecting the rather intellectualistic psychology on which teachers of an earlier generation were brought up, it seeks the

foundations of character and conduct in the innate tendencies to which the child is heir from an evolutionary past. The work of psycho-analysts is laid under contribution, and some of their

terms, such as “sublimation,” are adopted or adapted. In a diagrammatic “Tree of Human Development,” from roots in _l'élan vital_, two main stems, the nutritive _horme_ and the

distributive _libido_, arise, and from the latter are derived the flower and fruitage of the sublimated will or _eros_. There are many practical suggestions which will be found of value by

teachers. Education for Self-realisation and Social Service. Frank Watts By. (The New Humanist Series.) Pp. xii + 275. (London: University of London Press, Ltd., 1920.) Price 7_s_. 6_d_.

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