Note 5 — Chapter I · Introduction.

See Dr. Dittes, in Report of the Commissioner of Education, 1894–95, vol. I, p. 332.—From different sides complaints are heard that many educationists of to-day are conspicuous for their contempt of all that was venerated formerly. Dr. Matthias of Berlin, one of the most distinguished schoolmen of Germany, wrote recently: “Men of sound judgment point with alarm to a sort of pedagogical pride and arrogance of the younger teachers, which was unknown to the older generation.” Monatschrift für höhere Schulen, January 1902, p. 9.—Similarly Professor Willmann of the University of Prague: “A morbid hunting after novelties and a haughty contempt of all traditions are the characteristics of the modern educational agitation.” In Vigilate, I, p. 31.