The History of Education / Educational Practice and Progress Considered as a Phase of the Development and Spread of Western Civilization

by Ellwood Patterson Cubberley

2. That things should come before rules.

3. That students should be taught to analyze, rather than to
construct.

4. That each student should be taught to investigate for himself,
rather than to accept or depend upon authority.

5. That only that should be memorized which is clearly understood and
of real value.

6. That restraint and coercion should be replaced by interest in the
studies taught.

7. That the vernacular should be used as the medium for all
instruction.

8. That the study of real things should precede the study of words
about things.

9. That the order and course of Nature be discovered, and that a
method of teaching based on this then be worked out.

10. That physical education should be introduced for the sake of
health, and not merely to teach gentlemanly sports.

11. That all should be provided with the opportunity for an education
in the elements of knowledge. This to be in the vernacular.