Educational Review, Volume 49Nicholas Murray Butler, Frank Pierrepont Graves, William McAndrew Doubleday, Doran, 1915 - Education Vols. 19-34 include "Bibliography of education" for 1899-1906, compiled by James I. Wyer and others. |
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... curriculum . The minority argued in favor of the time tried and valued old policy and won out by a vote of 80 to 70 . The primary school committee was dissolved in 1855 , and the primary schools were transferred to the care of the ...
... curriculum . The minority argued in favor of the time tried and valued old policy and won out by a vote of 80 to 70 . The primary school committee was dissolved in 1855 , and the primary schools were transferred to the care of the ...
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... curriculum is not vital ; that mathematics , sciences , languages , history , and even English are taught with no bearing upon practical consequences . In brief , therefore , we are charged , in com- parison with other systems , with ...
... curriculum is not vital ; that mathematics , sciences , languages , history , and even English are taught with no bearing upon practical consequences . In brief , therefore , we are charged , in com- parison with other systems , with ...
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... curriculum . The German teacher may assign a composition upon the Latin which has been translated at the last hour . It is not unusual for a history class , for instance , to spend time upon the technical elements of a chemical ...
... curriculum . The German teacher may assign a composition upon the Latin which has been translated at the last hour . It is not unusual for a history class , for instance , to spend time upon the technical elements of a chemical ...
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... curriculum and a new point of view . It ought , however , to effect a tremendous saving of time . Granted , however , that we were mechanically to perfect the administration of our schools ; closely to articulate the course of study ...
... curriculum and a new point of view . It ought , however , to effect a tremendous saving of time . Granted , however , that we were mechanically to perfect the administration of our schools ; closely to articulate the course of study ...
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... curriculum - makers of the American secondary schools will only aim at something in particular , and make the best use of modern psychology and sociology in getting there , that tremendous economy will be effected . sense . It is not ...
... curriculum - makers of the American secondary schools will only aim at something in particular , and make the best use of modern psychology and sociology in getting there , that tremendous economy will be effected . sense . It is not ...
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Page 440 - In other words, education is the instruction of the intellect in the laws of Nature, under which name I include not merely things and their forces, but men and their ways ; and the fashioning of the affections and of the will into an earnest and loving desire to move in harmony with those laws.
Page 41 - For not to think of what I needs must feel, But to be still and patient, all I can ; And haply by abstruse research to steal From my own nature all the natural Man — This was my sole resource, my only plan : Till that which suits a part infects the whole, And now is almost grown the habit of my Soul.
Page 496 - To save a child from becoming a criminal, or from continuing in a career of crime, to end in maturer years in public punishment and disgrace, the Legislature surely may provide for the salvation of such a child, if its parents or guardian be unable or unwilling to do so, by bringing it into one of the courts of the state without any process at all, for the purpose of subjecting it to the state's guardianship and protection.
Page 474 - The board of education shall administer all moneys appropriated or available for educational purposes in the city, subject to the provisions of law relating to the audit and payment of salaries and other claims by the department of finance.
Page 39 - He habituated me to compare Lucretius, (in such extracts as I then read) Terence, and above all the chaster poems of Catullus, not only with the Roman poets of the, so called, silver and brazen ages; but with even those of the Augustan era: and on grounds of plain sense and universal logic to see and assert the superiority of the former in the truth and nativeness, both of their thoughts and diction. At the same time that we were studying the Greek Tragic Poets...
Page 496 - The action is not for the trial of a child charged with a crime, but is mercifully to save it from such an ordeal with the prison or penitentiary in its wake if the child's own good and the best interests of the state justify such salvation.
Page 241 - This definition was proposed at a conference of representatives of the National Conference Committee on Standards of Colleges and Secondary Schools with the officers of the Carnegie Foundation.
Page 39 - I learnt from him, that poetry, even that of the loftiest, and, seemingly, that of the wildest odes, had a logic of its own, as severe as that of science ; and more difficult, because more subtle, more complex, and dependent on more, and more fugitive, causes. In the truly great poets, he would say, there is a reason assignable, not only for every word, but for the position of every word...
Page 113 - And, lastly, a serious, virtuous, and industrious Course of Life, being first provided for, it is further the Design of this College, to instruct and perfect the Youth in the Learned Languages, and in the Arts of reasoning exactly, of writing correctly, and speaking eloquently...
Page 39 - Roman poets of the so-called silver and brazen ages, but with even those of the Augustan era; and on grounds of plain sense and universal logic, to see and assert the superiority of the former, in the truth and nativeness both of their thoughts and diction. At the same time that we were studying the Greek tragic poets, he made us read Shakespeare and Milton as lessons ; and they were the lessons, too, which required most time and trouble to bring up, BO as to escape his censure.