Yearbook (Volume 14) - Softcover
This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1920. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... realize that generally the ills of society and the maladjustments of modern civilization must be worked out in the community. As Elwood and other sociological writers have shown, the crux of the social problem is the control of individual character, a result that can accrue only from an analysis of the personality in its relations to better housing, sounder prenatal conditions, more nearly adequate diet, broader principles of education, a living wage for all responsible persons, hygienic working conditions, and opportunities for wholesome recreation. THE ADMINISTRATIVE VERSUS THE TREATMENT ASPECTS OF PROBATION Edwin J. Cooley, President, National Probation AssociaTion And Chief Probation Officer, Magistrate's Courts, New York i In handling all large working units of human beings, the administrator is confronted with the great problem of properly balancing and adjusting the claims of the system against those of the individual. This is true of all aspects of modern activities in the industries, in the schools, in the army and navy, and in all branches of government service. Wherever large aggregations of people work together, there (we find, active or dormant, the tug and clash, the two opposing interests of the system and of the individual. In certain fields, such as manufacturing and the army and navy, a certain proportion of results do accrue, even when the individuality of the worker is confined and limited, but especially in one great essential activity, that of teaching, the stultification of the individual worker defeats its aim immediately and irrevocably. Anyone who has taught in a large school system, realizes intimately the irony and folly of excessive administrative control and supervision. Wherever the members of an organization deal directly without ...
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- PublisherGeneral Books LLC
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 0217149944
- ISBN 13 9780217149945
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages56
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