School & Society, Bind 1,Oplag 14–26James McKeen Cattell, Raymond Walters, Will Carson Ryan Society for the Advancement of Education, 1915 |
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Side 621 - That the only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others.
Side 585 - It is a partnership in all science, a partnership in all art, a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection. As the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained in many generations, it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.
Side 585 - She crieth at the gates, at the entry of the city, at the coming in at the doors: "Unto you, O men, I call; and my voice is to the sons of man.
Side 549 - Our rule, so often required, that a verb must agree with its subject in person and number...
Side 868 - ... are likely to be more responsive to public interest than are unorganized and isolated individuals...
Side 616 - That increasing acquaintance with the laws of phenomena, which has through successive ages enabled us to subjugate nature to our needs, and in these days gives the common laborer comforts which, a few centuries ago, kings could not purchase, is scarcely in any degree owed to the appointed means of instructing our youth. The vital knowledge, that by which we have grown as a nation to what we are and which now underlies our whole existence, is a knowledge...
Side 806 - We must not hope wholly to change their original tempers, nor make the gay pensive and grave, nor the melancholy sportive, without spoiling them. God has stamp'd certain characters upon men's minds, which like their shapes, may perhaps be a little mended, but can hardly be totally alter'd and transform'd into the contrary.
Side 648 - SCIENCE AND EDUCATION A series of volumes for the promotion of scientific research and educational progress. Volume I. The Foundations of Science By H. POINCARÉ. Containing the authorized English translation by George Bruce Halste J of " Science and Hypothesis," "The Value of Science,
Side 652 - We hope," Dr. Jordan said on the opening day, "to give our students the priceless legacy of the educated man, the power of knowing what really is. The higher education should help to free them from the dead hands of old traditions and to enable them to form opinions worthy of the new evidence each new day brings before them.
Side 614 - When half of the men who are responsible for the business activities and who are guiding the political life of the country tell us that children from the elementary schools are not able to do definite things required in the world's real affairs, there is something the matter with the schools.