The American School: A Study of Secondary EducationDoubleday, Page, 1916 - 232 páginas |
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... needs in our country to - day ; and finally , with this material in hand , to discuss certain problems which seem especially impor- tant in our secondary education . CHAPTER II EDUCATION IT WOULD not be wise , even The Parent and the ...
... needs in our country to - day ; and finally , with this material in hand , to discuss certain problems which seem especially impor- tant in our secondary education . CHAPTER II EDUCATION IT WOULD not be wise , even The Parent and the ...
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... need the wisdom of the whole future as well as of the past , to say nothing of complete spiritual insight , if we would give an entirely satisfactory explanation . For our idea of the processes of growth and how they may be guided and ...
... need the wisdom of the whole future as well as of the past , to say nothing of complete spiritual insight , if we would give an entirely satisfactory explanation . For our idea of the processes of growth and how they may be guided and ...
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... needs both sun and rain , and that , like the tree , it must produce new growth if it is to live , we are touching what is , mentally as well as physi- cally , the root of the whole matter . Growth , in other words , implies production ...
... needs both sun and rain , and that , like the tree , it must produce new growth if it is to live , we are touching what is , mentally as well as physi- cally , the root of the whole matter . Growth , in other words , implies production ...
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... needs ; at another time , by the needs of the state ; at still another , by the needs of the world . What is best is , therefore , a shifting value . All we can say , without examin- ing particular conditions , is that the growth of the ...
... needs ; at another time , by the needs of the state ; at still another , by the needs of the world . What is best is , therefore , a shifting value . All we can say , without examin- ing particular conditions , is that the growth of the ...
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... need not study Latin if he doesn't want to ; it is to say , in effect , " The thing you do best is Latin , but we have no notion that the best in you shall be developed , so run along only mind you stick to the things you can't do ; it ...
... need not study Latin if he doesn't want to ; it is to say , in effect , " The thing you do best is Latin , but we have no notion that the best in you shall be developed , so run along only mind you stick to the things you can't do ; it ...
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academies activity American school athletics boarding-schools boys and girls cation cent CHAPTER chief chiefly child classics condition consider coöperation culture curriculum deal demand discuss Elective English especially exercise fact give grades Greek Groton School growing growth History idea implies important individual instance institution instruction intellectual junior junior school knowledge language Latin less literature living manual training mathematics Matthew Arnold means ment methods mind moral moreover needs nine to five offer parent paro physical development physical training possible practical prescribed present principle private day-school private schools problems production profession programme public high schools public schools pupil question realize reason religion religious secondary education secondary schools seems senior school sense six-year course sometimes sort spiritual stimulate student subjects supervision teachers teaching thing tion tional Trigonometry true tural utilitarian vacations vocational courses whole wisely Zoölogy
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Página 39 - ... and it is further ordered, that where any town shall increase to the number of one hundred families or householders they shall set up a grammar school, the master thereof being able to instruct youth so far as they may be fitted for the university...
Página 163 - From the beginning, such an education cannot be limited to the school arts — reading, writing, ciphering. It must acquaint the pupil with his material and social environment, in order that every avenue to knowledge may be opened to him, and every incipient power receive appropriate cultivation.
Página 55 - Astronomy (J). Group VI — Miscellaneous: Music (2). Freehand drawing (2). Vocal expression (2). Physical training (4). Group VII — Vocational: Mechanical and geometrical drawing (2). Manual training (3). Domestic science (2). Household management (1). Bookkeeping (1). Business practice (1). Shorthand (1). Typewriting (1). Rules governing combinations and graduation. — (1) Students, to graduate, must complete 15 years' work, viz, four studies each year for three years, and three studies one...
Página 145 - His countenance was grave and sedate, and did so to the life discover the inward frame of his heart, that it was convincing to the beholders and did strike something of awe into them that had nothing of the fear of God.
Página 120 - Within a few miles of the borders of a city with a magnificent school system, with palatial buildings, with trained teachers and supervisors, with elaborate library and technical equipment, with careful health supervision of its children, in short, with every conceivable educational opportunity, may be found the educational facilities of a backwoods civilization.
Página 223 - Our souls can neither fly nor go To reach eternal joys. 3 In vain we tune our formal songs, In vain we strive to rise; Hosannas languish on our tongues, And our devotion dies. 4...
Página 144 - ... account a book is an imperfect instructor. Truth there, being impersonal, seems untrue, abstract, and insignificant. It needs to shine through a human being before it can exert its vital force on a young student. Quite as much for vital transmission as for intellectual elucidation, is a teacher employed. His consolidated character exhibits the gains which come from study. He need not point them out. If he is a scholar, there will appear in him an augustness, accuracy, fulness of knowledge, a...
Página 3 - But there's people set up their own ears for a standard, and expect the whole choir to follow 'em. There may be two opinions, I hope." "Ay, ay," said Mr Macey, who felt very well satisfied with this attack on youthful presumption; "you're right there, Tookey: there's allays two 'pinions; there's the 'pinion a man has of himsen, and there's the 'pinion other folks have on him. There'd be two 'pinions about a cracked bell, if the bell could hear itself.
Página 163 - Now, the only real preparation for life's duties, opportunities, and privileges is participation in them, so far as they can be rendered intelligible, interesting, and accessible to children and youth of school age...
Página 56 - Rules governing combinations and graduation.— (1) Students, to graduate, must complete 15 years' work, viz, four studies each year for three years, and three studies one year. (2) Students may, on permission, take as many as five studies or as few as three studies each half-year. (3) Students, to graduate, must have had two years...