PEDIATRICS Vol. 12 No. 2 August 1953, pp. 209-216
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EDUCATION

SOME OBSERVATIONS ON PEDIATRIC EDUCATION

Editors: GROVER F. POWERS, M.D..

CAN you tell me, Socrates, whether virtue is acquired by teaching or by practice; and if neither by teaching nor by practice, then whether it comes to man by nature, or in what other way." At the conclusion of the dialogue Socrates gives an answer: ". . . virtue comes to the virtuous by the gift of God. But we shall never know the certain truth until, before asking how virtue is given, we inquire into the actual nature of virtue."

In the Great Didactic of Comenius is this precept: "Let the main objective . . . be as follows: To seek and find a method of instruction, by which teachers may teach less, but learners may learn more."