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The Family and it’s Members

CHAPTER XIV
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That the motives of his conduct, his own individually appreciated and chosen ends, shall be intelligently socialized."-- GEORGE ALBERT COE.
"The unbeliever says, 'You can never construct a true society out of foolish, sick, selfish men and women as we know them to be.' But the believer sees already a better state beginning to exist in men transfigured by the power of education.

And there is nothing that man will not overcome, amend, and convert until at last culture shall absorb, chaos itself."-- EMERSON.
"At the present time it may be that only the least effort is needed in order that truths already revealed to us should spread among hundreds, thousands, millions of men and women and a public opinion become established in conformity with the existing conscience and the entire social organization become transformed.
It depends upon us to make the effort."-- TOLSTOI.
=New Forms of Education Demanded by Modern Industry.=--When the power-driven machine ushered in the new era in industry it lessened both the prestige and the dignity of the individual worker in three particulars.

First, it destroyed the apprentice system and hence reduced all workers to a level in the eyes of the employer of labor and the general public.

The apprentice system had used for educational purposes the important period of adolescence between childhood and youth.

It had served with its ceremonial of entrance into the journeyman's right and public recognition to give distinction to the skilled workman, and it had made a nexus of social relationship, built upon craftsmanship, between those of the same and those of varying trades and occupations.


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