Proceedings, Abstracts of Lectures and a Brief Report of the Discussions of the National Teachers' Association, the National Association of School Superintendents and the American Normal School Association

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Peace in the SchoolsMiss Blake
140
Progress in Public EducationBlair
146
In Memoriam James Ormond WilsonBicknell
155
DEPARTMENT OF SUPERINTENDENCE Mobile Meeting 1911
161
THE PRESENT STATUS OF EDUCATION IN AMERICA
183
The Standards of Professional Life as Applied to TeachingSuzzallo
199
Preliminary Report of the Committee on Economy of Time in EducationSuzzallo
222
THE COMING OF THE HUMANE ELEMENT IN EDUCATION
236
Report of the Committee on the Mexican CentennialCummings
255
Preliminary Report of the Committee on Uniform Records and Reports
271
ROUND TABLES
303
Final Report of the Committee of the Department of Superintendence on a Uni
323
NATIONAL COUNCIL OF EDUCATION
331
Introductory Statement by the President of the CouncilKeyes
340
A Study of Method in the Teaching of MoralsCoe
419
Moral Training of College StudentsJordan
425
The Improvement of Teachers in Service in City SchoolsUpdegraff
433
NEEDED ADJUSTMENTS BETWEEN SECONDARY SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES
461
DEPARTMENT OF KINDERGARTEN EDUCATION
477
The Development of the Color SenseMiss Ball
484
Its Influences upon Higher EducationBoone
490
Moral Instruction of the ChildRugh
497
The Kindergarten as an Ethical LaboratoryMiss Pluss
503
The Kindergarten of the FutureParlin
511
DEPARTMENT OF ELEMENTARY EDUCATION
517
Industrial Education in LondonMiss Stevens
523
The Health of School ChildrenAley
544
DEPARTMENT OF SECONDARY EDUCATION
555
The New Harvard Plan for College AdmissionDavis
567
The HighSchool Teacher HimselfBarrett
576
Social FunctionsHanna
586
ROUNDTABLE CONFERENCES
592
B Mathematics
607
Classical
635
Simplified Spelling From the Scholarly Standpoint and with Reference to
645
Simplified Spelling with Reference to the MassesSeerley
651
DEPARTMENT OF HIGHER EDUCATION
659
The Building up of Professional Education on a Collegiate Foundation from
670
The Supply of and Demand for Engineering Graduates in the United States
681
The Future of Intercollegiate Athletics in the Western StatesCampbell
688
DEPARTMENT OF NORMAL SCHOOLS
695
DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC EDUCATION
787
Some Mistakes of the Music Teacher Which the Viewpoint of the Child Would
801
The Relation of Music to School ActivitiesMiss Fisher
808
The Opportunity and the Responsibility of Normal Schools in PublicSchool Music
822
Bookkeeping FundamentalsMcKinney
829
Business EnglishWhat? Why? How?Cody
839
ShorthandIts Educational and Practical ValueClark
845
Curricula for High Schools of Commerce in the United StatesMurphy
852
Bernhard
861
DEPARTMENT OF CHILD HYGIENE
869
Results and Impressions of a Preliminary Study of Pedagogical Retardation
878
Health and VentilationAyres
885
OpenAir SchoolsAyres
898
Secretarys Minutes
905
The Health of the Child the Joint Concern of Parent and TeacherEvans
913
The Playground Movement in AmericaWeir
925
Physical Training for Girls of HighSchool AgeThe Biological Point of View
933
DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCE INSTRUCTION
939
Elementary or General Science for High Schools as It Appears to a Western College
948
WaterPowers Lands and MineralsPardee
958
National VitalitySnow
965
Report of Committee on Efficiency of Janitor Service
977
DEPARTMENT OF SCHOOL ADMINISTRATION
993
The Relation of the Indiana Accounting Board to Public SchoolsMyers
1002
PresentDay Tendencies of School ArchitecturePatton
1009
LIBRARY DEPARTMENT
1015
California County Free LibrariesMiss Eddy
1026
The School LaggardPearse
1033
Causes of Backwardness and Mental Deficiency in Children and How to Prevent
1039
Can We Eliminate the School Laggard?Luckey
1046
The Hygiene of VisionLewis
1059
Legal Provisions for Exceptional ChildrenGroszmann
1070
What Constitutes a Subnormal Child and to What Extent Can He Be Trained?
1077
Physiology and Pscyhology of the Deaf ChildLowry
1084
DEPARTMENT OF SCHOOL PATRONS
1093
Cooperation between Home and SchoolOwen
1103
DEPARTMENT OF RURAL AND AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION
1117
School Gardening in Hawaii as Related to Agricultural EducationMacCaughey
1126
Report of Committee on Courses of Study in AgricultureBishop
1138
Agriculture and Domestic Science in Normal Schools with Special Reference
1152
166
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Page 2 - 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 351 - Refuse to express a passion, and it dies. Count ten before venting your anger, and its occasion seems ridiculous. Whistling to keep up courage is no mere figure of speech. On the other hand, sit all day in a moping posture, sigh, and reply to everything with a dismal voice, and your melancholy lingers. There is no more valuable precept in moral education than this, as all who have...
Page 357 - Pleasure comes through toil and not by self-indulgence and indolence. When one gets to love work, his life is a happy one.
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Page 351 - There is no more valuable precept in moral education than this, as all who have experience know if we wish to conquer undesirable emotional tendencies in ourselves, we must assiduously, and in the first instance coldbloodedly, go through the outward movements of those contrary dispositions which we prefer to cultivate.
Page 719 - We are always in these days endeavouring to separate the two; we want one man to be always thinking, and another to be always working, and we call one a gentleman, and the other an operative; whereas the workman ought often to be thinking, and the thinker often to be working, and both should be gentlemen, in the best sense.

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