Introduction to the Scientific Study of Education

Introduction to the Scientific Study of Education is by Charles Hubbard Judd, named as professor of education at the University of Chicago. A chapter headed Delegating Responsibility for Carrying on Schools says the community cannot decide what seven-year-old children shall study and cannot decide what ought to be done with a disorderly pupil. The text says democracy always masters its problems slowly and after many slips, and that the hopeful fact is that more communities are providing agencies for the scientific study of their school problems.

The exercises ask whether a board of education should examine textbooks and whether it should determine the scale of salaries to be paid to teachers. The text asks the student to classify teachers with respect to the aggressiveness of their methods of attack, and says a list of questions designed to aid in the observation of classroom methods will be found in the Appendix. The text says that in some states it is required that the child shall finish a certain grade, usually the sixth, otherwise he must go to school until he is sixteen.