Excerpt from The Athena, 1931 Those who are responsible for the direction of the activities of the College of Education believe in ample and thorough preparation in academic fields of study a well as in professional work in education, psychology, educational sociology, educa tional biology, and other courses of a professional nature. Accurate and careful masv tery is stressed by all departments in the college. Without this accuracy in knowl edge, thoroughness in teaching cannot be secured. The College of Education of Ohio University exists primarily for the purpose of preparing young men and women to become teachers. Its graduates with their backgrounds of preparation and student teaching experience, leaxe the University ready to enter the profession under very favorable circumstances. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

1931年のオハイオ大学の精神を封じ込めた本作は、教育者という名の「魂の彫刻家」たちの熱き記録です。「正確な知識の習得」を重んじる厳格な姿勢は、単なる技術論を超え、人間形成への深い敬意を物語っています。激動の時代にあって、次世代を育むという崇高な使命感に燃えた若き志士たちの鼓動が、行間から鮮烈に伝わってきます。 知の女神の名を冠するこの書は、教育を単なる職業ではなく、科学と哲学が融合した崇高な芸術として捉えています。当時の体裁を忠実に再現した復刻版だからこそ味わえる、時間旅行のような臨場感は格別です。教育の本質を問い直す重厚な言葉の数々に、現代を生きる我々も魂を激しく揺さぶられる、真実の教養書と言えるでしょう。