RIVERSIDE TEXTBOOKS IN EDUCATION EDITED BY ELLWOOD P. CUBBERLEY PROFESSOR OF EDUCATION LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY RIVERSIDE TEXTBOOKS IN EDUCATION BY THE SAME AUTHOR READINGS IN THE HISTORY OF EDUCATION A COLLECTION OF SOURCES AND READINGS TO A Companion Volume to the Present Volume PUBLIC EDUCATION IN THE A STUDY AND INTERPRETATION OF AMERICAN An Introductory Textbook dealing with the Larger Problems "I have always thought that the chief object of education was to awaken the spirit, and that inasmuch as a literature whenever it has touched its great and highest notes was an expression of the spirit of mankind, the best induction into education was to feel the pulses of humanity which had beaten from age to age through the universities of men who had penetrated to the secrets of the human spirit." (WOODROW WILSON, in acknowledging receipt of the Doctor's Degree from the University of Paris, Dec. 21, 1918.) "The study of the past begins to inspire us with new hopes for the future of humanity. The life which, viewed from without, seems in us, and thousands such as we, so petty and trivial, catches a new significance and even grandeur from the thought that it is not the isolated, transient thing we deemed it. We begin to perceive that no earnest effort for the good of humanity is ever lost, no life, however obscure, that has been devoted to the highest ends, to the service of mankind, to the progress of truth and goodness in the world, is ever spent in vain. For we think of them as contributions to a life which is not of to-day or yesterday, but of all time a life which, never hasting, never resting, is through the ages ever advancing to its consummation." (JOHN CAIRD, in an Address on "The Study of History" delivered at the University of Glasgow, November 8, 1884. “University Addresses,” p. 253.) THE HISTORY OF EDUCATION EDUCATIONAL PRACTICE AND PROGRESS CONSIDERED HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY |