International Review of Educational Cinematography (Jan-Dec 1932)

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540 " The final aim of education is the conception of virtue. But the immediate aim which must be assigned to education, especially if it is to reach its final aim, may be rendered by the expression : Plurilaterality of interest. The word interest denotes, generally, that species of intellectual activity that must be determined by education, taking into account the fact that education does not mean simply to know. For knowledge is considered as a supply of cognitions, which might be lacking without the man being other than he is. Of those, on the other hand, who retain their knowledge and try to increase it, it may be said that they are interested in knowledge. But since this mental attitude is of different kinds, it is necessary to add to it the determining note, which is inherent in the word Plurilaterality (1) ". The immediate aim of education being this many-sided interest, which necessarily implies the harmonious development of every faculty, the search for the most suitable means to this end follows as a natural consequence. First of all, as we have already seen, Herbart places intuition in its two distinct forms : visual teaching and object lessons, the latter of which, although they appeal to the scholar's every sense, may without contradiction be specially dealt with in their appeal to the sense of sight, both on account of its greater importance and the facilities it offers to the teacher. (to be continued). M. L. Rossi Longhi. (1) J. F. Herbart : General Pedagogy.