An Introduction to the Study of Education and to Teaching

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Houghton Mifflin, 1925 - 476 sider

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Side 356 - God's worship, and settled the civil government, one of the next things we longed for and looked after was to advance learning and perpetuate it to posterity; dreading to leave an illiterate ministry to the churches, when our present ministers shall lie in the dust.
Side 159 - Consequently, education in a democracy, both within and without the school, should develop in each individual the knowledge, interests, ideals, habits, and powers whereby he will find his place and use that place to shape both himself and society toward ever nobler ends .... This commission, therefore, regards the following as the main objectives of education: 1.
Side 145 - Harvard College pays me for doing what I would gladly pay it for allowing me to do. No professional man, then, thinks of giving according to measure. Once engaged, he gives his best, gives his personal interest, himself. His heart is in his work, and for this no equivalent is possible...
Side 231 - The two ideas of science and art differ from one another as the understanding differs from the will, and as the indicative mode in Grammar differs from the imperative. The one deals in facts, and the other in precepts. Science is a collection of truths ; art is a body of rules, or directions for the conduct. The language of science is, This is, or This is not ; This does 'or does not happen. The language of art is, Do this ; Avoid that.
Side 447 - That it (the public school) will be endangered within a comparatively short time is evident, unless the cost of public education shall be brought within a limit of expense which the public can bear . . .", p.
Side 199 - Educational significance of intelligence measurements. The educational significance of this new means of determining the mental ability of school children is very large. Questions relating to proper classification in school, grading, promotion, choice of studies, amount of work, schoolroom procedure, vocational guidance, and the proper handling of sub-normal children on the one hand and gifted children on the other, all acquire new meaning in the light of intelligence measurements.
Side 61 - State to formulate a constructive policy for the development of the education of the people of the State, and to change this policy from time to time as the changing needs of the State may seem to require. This may involve more than the mere regulation of schools, and may properly include such educational agencies and efforts as libraries, playgrounds, health supervision, and adult education. Instead of being a passive tax-gatherer and lawgiver, the State should become an active, energetic agent,...
Side 159 - Education in the United States should be guided by a clear conception of the meaning of democracy. It is the ideal of democracy that the individual and society may find fulfillment each in the other.
Side 451 - ... and the embarrassments hitherto found in this country, from the financing of education, will come to an end.
Side 56 - ... Conclusions of the different chapters summarized 250 BIBLIOGRAPHY 254 PART I CHANGES; INEQUALITIES EXISTING; PROVISIONS FOR RELIEF CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION : THE PROBLEM STATED THE first half century of our Republic, from an educational point of view, was largely given over to the establishment of the principle that " the whole state is interested in the education of the children of the state.

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