Date of Award
6-1925
Degree Type
Bachelors Essay
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts (BA)
Department
Education
Abstract
From one point of view the significance of the development of modern education can best be estimated by the progress of the mother-tongue toward the central place in formal instruction. When the study of the mother-tongue and its literature is made the core of the curriculum, education is something quite different from that training in which a foreign, perhaps an ancient tongue holds the chief place. We have been told by one school of critics that the mother-tongue need not be taught, for it will be picked up somehow; by another, that it cannot be taught, for there is nothing to teach. Both fallacies have had their day, and we are now in the presence of a sane and healthy movement for the more careful and devoted study of the English language and its literature. The movement has found its way into the elementary school, the secondary school, and the college.
Recommended Citation
Regan, Julia Agnes, "The Teaching of English in the Elementary Schools" (1925). Bachelors’ Theses. 1135.
https://epublications.marquette.edu/bachelor_essays/1135
Comments
A thesis Submitted to fulfill the Requirements for the Degree of Bachelor of Philosophy, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.