Educational Review, Volume 55Nicholas Murray Butler, Frank Pierrepont Graves, William McAndrew Doubleday, Doran, 1918 - Education Vols. 19-34 include "Bibliography of education" for 1899-1906, compiled by James I. Wyer and others. |
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... profession . In the same class with him a man who led his class in academic work was to all intent and purpose a failure under the same conditions ; under different conditions he would not today be in his grave with a broken heart ...
... profession . In the same class with him a man who led his class in academic work was to all intent and purpose a failure under the same conditions ; under different conditions he would not today be in his grave with a broken heart ...
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... professions and all the callings in life . It is easy to say that the boy of unusual ability will persist and get the educa- tion anyhow . This is not true . Very often family obligations entirely preclude such a consummation , and the ...
... professions and all the callings in life . It is easy to say that the boy of unusual ability will persist and get the educa- tion anyhow . This is not true . Very often family obligations entirely preclude such a consummation , and the ...
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... profession . Knowing that the chief value of rhetoric is to enable one to write , I did not get enmeshed in the tangle of rules , as I know some students in my class in rhetoric did . I never got high grades for technical excellence ...
... profession . Knowing that the chief value of rhetoric is to enable one to write , I did not get enmeshed in the tangle of rules , as I know some students in my class in rhetoric did . I never got high grades for technical excellence ...
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... professions , and city government draws one away from the sort of intensive , exhaustive study that is under- taken to get a doctor's degree . Students who cooperate are likely to apply what they know , but they do not go into a subject ...
... professions , and city government draws one away from the sort of intensive , exhaustive study that is under- taken to get a doctor's degree . Students who cooperate are likely to apply what they know , but they do not go into a subject ...
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... professions such as law and medicine . It has been the sine qua non of a medi- cal education since Vesalius taught physicians to study anat- omy in the human body and not in the pages of Hippocrates . Furthermore , aside from the ...
... professions such as law and medicine . It has been the sine qua non of a medi- cal education since Vesalius taught physicians to study anat- omy in the human body and not in the pages of Hippocrates . Furthermore , aside from the ...
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Page 143 - But here the main skill and groundwork will be to temper them such lectures and explanations upon every opportunity as may lead and draw them in willing obedience, inflamed with the study of learning and the admiration of virtue; stirred up with high hopes of living to be brave men and worthy patriots, dear to God and famous to all ages.
Page 185 - The which observed, a man may prophesy, With a near aim, of the main chance of things As yet not come to life ; which in their seeds, And weak beginnings lie intreasured. Such things become the hatch and brood of time...
Page 137 - Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
Page 240 - If their names were not found in the registers of heralds, they were recorded in the Book of Life. If their steps were not accompanied by a splendid train of menials, legions of ministering angels had charge over them. Their palaces were houses not made with hands ; their diadems crowns of glory which should never fade away.
Page 143 - I shall detain you no longer in the demonstration of what we should not do, but straight conduct you to a hill-side, where I will point you out the right path of a virtuous and noble education; laborious indeed at the first ascent, but else so smooth, so green, so full of goodly prospect and melodious sounds on every side, that the harp of Orpheus was not more charming.
Page 307 - 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 248 - The hills, Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun ; the vales Stretching in pensive quietness between ; The venerable woods — rivers that move In majesty, and the complaining brooks That make the meadows green ; and, poured round all, Old Ocean's gray and melancholy waste, — Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man.
Page 142 - Tactics and warlike maxims, they may as it were out of a long war come forth renowned and perfect Commanders in the service of their country.
Page 141 - I call therefore a complete and generous education, that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war.
Page 240 - The difference between the greatest and the meanest of mankind seemed to vanish, when compared with the boundless interval which separated the whole race from him on whom their own eyes were constantly fixed.