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Excerpt from Principles of Money and Banking: A Series of Selected Materials, With Explanatory Introductions Again, it may be argued that too carefully condensed and edited readings result in the student's losing a valuable training in sifting chaff from the wheat. The analysis of a complete chapter or article either for the purpose of evaluating the whole or for picking out and making use of only such portions as bear on the topic in hand unquestionably gives a training that is of much importance. It seems to me, however, that the necessary training along this line may be gained without following this method exclusively, or even pri marily. A considerable number of collateral readings of the type under consideration should certam be used with a book of care fully edited readings and materials as well as with a formal text book. Term papers or special reports may, of course, serve a similar purpose. Where the method is followed exclusively, however, the student frequently rebels or grows careless, with the result that he does not acquire the training intended. The most serious obstacle to the independent use of a book of materials would seem to lie in a possible lack of unity in the volume. There is danger that the student may not see the relations between different chapters and divisions of the subject as well as when they are tied together by the thread of a formal treatise by a single author. In the present volume an eflort has been made to overcome this shortcoming of the method by means of an introductory statement for each chapter which attempts to give a setting for the readings to come - to relate them to what has gone before and to indicate their trend and purpose. It is probable, however, that even with this aid the teacher will have more interpreting to do than with a formal text. But if the idea underlying the method is sound, he will find more than compensating advantages. However, in all this pedagogical theorizing I recognize that I may well be in error. And especially do I appreciate that we are not all of the same pattern, and that what is a good method for one teacher may prove very bad for another. If, therefore, this volume does not commend itself for independent use, I hope there may be some who will find in it material that will prove useful in a collateral capacity. 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.