Journal of Proceedings and Addresses of the ... Annual Meeting Held at ...University of Chicago Press, 1903 - Education |
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... child - growth to be hampered even at the expense of beautiful lawns and artistic flower beds . On the other hand , the child is entitled to a knowledge of the beautiful ; and it lies within the power of the teacher to see that in this ...
... child - growth to be hampered even at the expense of beautiful lawns and artistic flower beds . On the other hand , the child is entitled to a knowledge of the beautiful ; and it lies within the power of the teacher to see that in this ...
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... child should be such as to place it in intimate relation with the objects and events with which it lives . It is a fact , however , that our teaching has been largely exotic to the child ; that it has begun by taking the child away from ...
... child should be such as to place it in intimate relation with the objects and events with which it lives . It is a fact , however , that our teaching has been largely exotic to the child ; that it has begun by taking the child away from ...
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... child into first - hand relation with his own life . It expands the child's spontaneous interest in his environment into a permanent and abiding sympathy and philosophy of life . I never knew an exclusive student of classics or ...
... child into first - hand relation with his own life . It expands the child's spontaneous interest in his environment into a permanent and abiding sympathy and philosophy of life . I never knew an exclusive student of classics or ...
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... child . In a certain rural school in New York state , of say forty - five pupils , I asked all those children that lived on farms to raise their hands ; all hands but one went up . I then asked all those who wanted to live on the farm ...
... child . In a certain rural school in New York state , of say forty - five pupils , I asked all those children that lived on farms to raise their hands ; all hands but one went up . I then asked all those who wanted to live on the farm ...
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... child . In fact , the child is doing every day just what the race has done - forming ideals of human well - being and devising means for the realization of these ideals . It has been previously stated that these industrial processes ...
... child . In fact , the child is doing every day just what the race has done - forming ideals of human well - being and devising means for the realization of these ideals . It has been previously stated that these industrial processes ...
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Page 677 - In the elder days of Art, Builders -wrought with greatest care Each minute and unseen part ; For the gods see everywhere.
Page 414 - God; from his inmost heart awakens him to all nobleness, — to all knowledge, "self-knowledge" and much else, so soon as Work fitly begins. Knowledge? The knowledge that will hold good in working, cleave thou to that; for Nature herself accredits that, says Yea to that. Properly thou hast no other knowledge but what thou hast got by working: the rest is yet all a hypothesis of knowledge; a thing to be argued of in schools, a thing floating in the clouds, in endless logic-vortices, till we try it...
Page 577 - Blowing over the meadows brown. And one was safe and asleep in his bed, Who at the bridge would be first to fall, Who that day would be lying dead, Pierced by a British musket-ball.
Page 476 - The officers of the Association shall be a President, a Vice-President, a Secretary and a Treasurer, and the same person may occupy the offices of Secretary and Treasurer.
Page 531 - By heaven, I had rather coin my heart, And drop my blood for drachmas, than to wring From the hard hands of peasants their' vile trash By any indirection.
Page 203 - How can an inanimate, mechanical gerundgrinder, the like of whom will, in a subsequent century, be manufactured at Niirnberg out of wood and leather, foster the growth of anything; much more of mind, which grows, not like a vegetable (by having its roots littered with etymological compost), but like a spirit, by mysterious contact of spirit; thought kindling itself at the fire of living thought?
Page 58 - There are fundamental truths that lie at the bottom, the basis upon which a great many others rest, and in which they have their consistency. These are teeming truths, rich in store, with which they furnish the mind, and, like the lights of heaven, are •not only beautiful and entertaining in themselves, but give light and evidence to other things, that without them could not be seen or known.
Page 32 - Illinois, moved that the Secretary be instructed to cast the ballot of the members present for the election of the nominees named to fill the vacancies occasioned by the several resignations which had been read.
Page 1 - To elevate the character and advance the interests of the profession of teaching, and to promote the cause of popular education in the United States.
Page 3 - ... two years, one for three years and one for four years beginning on November 1, 1935.