Excerpt from Vocational EducationThe following chapters were outlined in 1905, while I was teaching history and social science in the State Normal School of Valley City, North Dakota. The circumstances occasioning their development may be of interest. Incidental to the work of instruction in history methods, the task of outlining a series of talks on the subject was undertaken. In deliberating on the aim of history study it was discovered that this could be settled only when the object of education had been determined.During the time I was seeking to formulate the end of education, having in mind no educational preconceptions sufficiently ingrained to act as a limitation to free organization of thoughts about the matter of training, and being accustomed to view individuals as products and phases of the age-long historic process, the objective grounds of education were naturally evolved.Such principles as this volume espouses were then developed. Some reorganization and addition of matter have since been made. While the form which the material assumes is not entirely satisfactory to me, I feel justified in issuing the work now. During the past two years it has been delivered as a regular course of lectures to the students in the College of Education in the University of North Dakota, and has elicited their hearty response and approval.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.