| + + | Ann. Am. Acad. 25: 149. Ja. ‘05. 1530w. |
“Method of presentation and clarity of statement are other commendatory traits.”
| + + | Outlook. 79: 754. Mr. 25, ‘05. 2380w. |
O’Shea, Michael Vincent. Education as adjustment: educational theory viewed in the light of contemporary thought. [*]$1.50. Longmans.
“This new work, which is centered around the idea of adjustment, is divided into three parts. In Part I. the present status of education as a science is faithfully described.... The last chapter of Part I. treats of the data for a science of education, discussing the respective values of the various classes of facts contributed by the study of biographies, autobiographies, and the survival of the fittest in education, as well as by the experimentation and research advocated by sane leaders in the child-study movement. Especially valuable is the section which explains the evolutionary point of view.... Part II. examines the meaning and aim of education.... Chapters VI., VII., and VIII. of Part II. deal respectively with the implications of adjustment as the end in education, with adjustment as affected by social organization, and with the general effect of adjustment upon teaching.... The method of obtaining adjustment is treated in Part III.... Chapters XIII. and XIV. are devoted to the doctrine of formal discipline.”—Educ. R.
“Looked at as a whole, ‘Education as adjustment’ does not reveal marked originality; but it is a luminous and vigorous presentation of the best educational thought of the present day. It is, furthermore, refreshing in that it betrays neither superficiality nor dogmatism. His work, tho written in untechnical, popular language, is, nevertheless, neither inane nor inaccurate. It is worthy of occupying a valued place among the text-books used in normal schools and college schools of education.” W. S. Sutton.
| + + + | Educ. R. 29: 191. F. ‘05. 1610w. |
Osler, William. Aequanimitas, and other addresses to medical students, nurses, practitioners. [*]$2. Blakiston.
A collection of 18 addresses and essays all pertaining to medicine. The title gives the keynote to the volume, the successful nurse or doctor must be imperturbable. Dr. Osler gives a review of medical science in the nineteenth century, and his thoughts on education, investigation, ethics, religion, and the conduct of life. He gives advice to young physicians, suggestions as to their relations to both patients and nurses, and tells them that the master-word of progress is “Work.”
“Dr. Osler’s extensive sympathy, his elevation of thought, his insistence on worthy ideals, his wide reading are all strikingly exhibited in the volume before us.”