The Project Method
by William H. Kilpatrick ?1918
The word 'project' is perhaps the latest arrival to knock for admittance at the door of educational terminology. Shall we admit the stranger? Not wisely until two preliminary questions have first been answered in the affirmative: First, is there behind the proposed term and waiting even now to be christened a valid notion or concept which promises to render appreciable service in educational thinking? Second, if we grant the foregoing, does the term 'project' fitly designate the waiting concept? Because the question as to the concept and its worth is so much more significant than any matter of mere names, this discussion will deal almost exclusively with the first of the two inquiries. It is indeed entirely possible that some other term, as 'purposeful act', for example, would call attention to a more important element in the concept, and, if so, might prove superior as a term to the word 'project'. At the outset it is probably wise to caution the reader against expecting any great amount of novelty in the idea here presented. The metaphor of christening is not to be taken too seriously; the concept to be considered is not in fact newly born. Not a few readers will be disappointed that after all so little new is presented.
這個詞'項目'，也許是最後一個登場的准入敲在門口的教育術語。
我們應當承認的陌生人？
不是明智的，直到2初步問題最先回答是肯定的：
首先，是有任期的建議背後，等待甚至現在是一個有效的命名的概念或概念，它承諾提供可觀的服務教育思想？
第二，如果我們給予上述情況，還有，'項目'fitly指定等待的概念？
因為質詢的概念，其價值更重要的是這麼多的問題比任何單純的名字，這次討論會處理幾乎完全與第一期的2查詢。這實在是完全可能的，其他一些術語，如'有目的的行為'，例如，將引起人們注意更重要的元素的概念，以及，如果有的話，可能被證明優於作為一個名詞的詞'項目'。
在開始的時候可能是明智的告誡讀者，不要寄望有大量的新奇想法在這裡提出。
這個比喻的洗禮是不能太認真對待，要考慮的概念其實並不新生。
不少讀者會感到失望，畢竟這麼少，提出了新的。
