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The Crisis in Valuation with Special Reference to the State System of Education

The Crisis in Valuation with Special Reference to the State System of Education THE CRISIS IN VALUATION WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE STATE SYSTEM OF EDUCATION J. A. FYFIELD .. The danger of some forms of secular education is that in their scrupulous neutrality they ignore or deliberately avoid discussion of spiritual values and genuine humanism and thus intensify the materialistic and depersonalizing influences." -Education and Mental Health. UNESCO, 1955. My chief concern will be the place of ideas in our Victorian State education system. My view is that an education system must be designed for the development of individuals in a social framework. The effectiveness of the education of a person will be measured by the adequacy of his response to his environment. This response must be adequate in two ways: it must be socially purposeful, and it must be personally fulfilling. Of these two aspects, the first subserves the second. Socially purposeful behaviour will promote that sort of social structure that best allows personal fulfilment. Thus any effective education system will rest on a firm sociological basis in so far as it is concerned with securing that form of society which permits freedom of individuals; and in so far as it is concerned with the proper development of personality in http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Australian Journal of Education SAGE

The Crisis in Valuation with Special Reference to the State System of Education

Fyfield, J. A.
Australian Journal of Education , Volume 9 (1): 10 – Mar 1, 1965
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SAGE
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© 1965 Australian Council for Educational Research
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0004-9441
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2050-5884
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10.1177/000494416500900107
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THE CRISIS IN VALUATION WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE STATE SYSTEM OF EDUCATION J. A. FYFIELD .. The danger of some forms of secular education is that in their scrupulous neutrality they ignore or deliberately avoid discussion of spiritual values and genuine humanism and thus intensify the materialistic and depersonalizing influences." -Education and Mental Health. UNESCO, 1955. My chief concern will be the place of ideas in our Victorian State education system. My view is that an education system must be designed for the development of individuals in a social framework. The effectiveness of the education of a person will be measured by the adequacy of his response to his environment. This response must be adequate in two ways: it must be socially purposeful, and it must be personally fulfilling. Of these two aspects, the first subserves the second. Socially purposeful behaviour will promote that sort of social structure that best allows personal fulfilment. Thus any effective education system will rest on a firm sociological basis in so far as it is concerned with securing that form of society which permits freedom of individuals; and in so far as it is concerned with the proper development of personality in

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Published: Mar 1, 1965

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