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Usage examples of educative.

In the first place, all things are educative and all forms of education have a definite relation to all other forms of education, and all educational processes have definite relations to all other educational processes, so all of these factors make for unity in education, and the completest education is that which embraces the greatest number of educational factors.

In the examples taken from the school, on the other hand, the processes of adjustment are, to a greater or less extent, directed and regulated through the presence of some type of educative agent.

For scientific treatment, therefore, it is possible to limit formal education, so far as it deals with conscious adjustment, to those modifications of experience which are directed or controlled through an educative agent, or, in other words, are brought about by means of instruction.

It is from the more typical forms of this social, or race, experience that education draws the experience, or problems, for the educative process.

Thus developed the conception of the school as an instrument by which such educative work might be carried on more effectively.

In the educative process, however, as previously exemplified, we find that the child is not a slave to the passing transient impressions of the present, but is able to secure a control over his experience which enables him to set up intelligent aims, devise plans for their attainment, and apply these plans in gaining the end desired.

If the teacher endeavours to provide the child with games that possess an educative value, physical, intellectual, or moral, how can she give such games to the children, and at the same time avoid setting the game as a task?

This can be accomplished only by having them presented to the pupil by an educative agent and therefore set as a problem or a task to be mastered.

It will be understood, therefore, why the ability to recall past experiences is accepted as an essential factor in the educative process.

The museum would therefore be educative in its making, and when it is made, it would have immense value to the community, not only to the children but to all the people.

It will be well for us to look into our own history and see what sort of a moral heritage of educative materials it has left us.

For moral educative purposes in the training of the young the history of America, from the early explorations and settlements along the Atlantic coast to the present, has scarcely a parallel in history.

History and natural science, on the contrary, having the richest knowledge content, constitute a natural center for all educative efforts.

Again, only those periods whose deeds, spirit, and tendency have been well preserved by history or, still better, have found expression in the work of some great poet or literary artist, can supply for children the best educative material.

But this must be a genuine and permanent interest to be of educative value.