Educational Review, Volume 19Nicholas Murray Butler, Frank Pierrepont Graves, William McAndrew Doubleday, Doran, 1900 Vols. 19-34 include "Bibliography of education" for 1899-1906, compiled by James I. Wyer and others. |
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... fact happens to be , however , that both have taken themselves too seriously . " Advanced thinkers " and " mossbacks " chase and are chased , but this game of chevy is being played out in a world which is not the world known to human ...
... fact happens to be , however , that both have taken themselves too seriously . " Advanced thinkers " and " mossbacks " chase and are chased , but this game of chevy is being played out in a world which is not the world known to human ...
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... fact that , on the basis of dualistic metaphysic and sensational psychology , human experience must be viewed as phenomenal only - it knows naught for certain and , in so far as it betrays the presence of constructive principles ...
... fact that , on the basis of dualistic metaphysic and sensational psychology , human experience must be viewed as phenomenal only - it knows naught for certain and , in so far as it betrays the presence of constructive principles ...
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... of the American " atrocities " which provoked this . There is a general failure to call attention to the fact that the Government could even claim , in the expenses of the French and Indian 1900 ] 27 English history in school text - books.
... of the American " atrocities " which provoked this . There is a general failure to call attention to the fact that the Government could even claim , in the expenses of the French and Indian 1900 ] 27 English history in school text - books.
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... fact that the oppression of the colonies which led to the Revolution was the work of the king and one politi- cal party , and not that of the great people of England , and the failure to point out that the colonists themselves were by ...
... fact that the oppression of the colonies which led to the Revolution was the work of the king and one politi- cal party , and not that of the great people of England , and the failure to point out that the colonists themselves were by ...
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... fact , hitherto almost always ignored in the text - books , that there was a very large and important section of the American people who sang : Tho fated to Poverty , Banishment , Death , Our hearts are unaltered and with our last ...
... fact , hitherto almost always ignored in the text - books , that there was a very large and important section of the American people who sang : Tho fated to Poverty , Banishment , Death , Our hearts are unaltered and with our last ...
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Page 53 - On Linden, when the sun was low, All bloodless lay the untrodden snow ; And dark as winter was the flow Of Iser, rolling rapidly. But Linden saw another sight, When the drum beat at dead of night, Commanding fires of death to light The darkness of her scenery.
Page 487 - For the purpose of public instruction, we hold every man subject to taxation in proportion to his property, and we look not to the question whether he himself have, or have not, children to be benefited by the education for which he pays.
Page 327 - ... accessible, under such rules and restrictions as the officers in charge of each collection may prescribe, subject to such authority as is now or may hereafter be permitted by law, to the scientific investigators and to students of any institution of higher education now incorporated or hereafter to be incorporated under the laws of Congress or of the District of Columbia, to wit: 1.
Page 487 - We hope to excite a feeling of respectability and a sense of character by enlarging the capacity and increasing the sphere of intellectual enjoyment. By general instruction, we seek, as far as possible, to purify the whole moral atmosphere...
Page 487 - We do not, indeed, expect all men to be philosophers, or statesmen ; but we confidently trust, and our expectation of the duration of our system of government rests on that trust, that by the diffusion of general knowledge, and good and virtuous sentiments, the political fabric may be secure, as well against open violence and overthrow, as against the slow but sure undermining of licentiousness.
Page 18 - We are like the clerk in the central telephone exchange who cannot get nearer to his customers than his end of the telephone wires. We are indeed worse off than the clerk, for to carry out the analogy properly we must suppose him never to have been outside the telephone exchange, never to have seen a customer or any one like a customer — in short, never, except through the telephone wire, to have come in contact with the outside universe. Of that "real...
Page 114 - In the original constitution of Oxford, as in that of all the older universities of the Parisian model, the business of instruction was not confided to a special body of privileged professors. The University was governed, the University was taught, by the graduates at large ; Professor, Master, Doctor, were originally synonymous.
Page 169 - As a standard series of entrance requirements, to be adopted as soon as possible, we recommend the following : 1. Physical geography. 2. United States history. 3. Arithmetic, including the metric system. 4. Algebra to quadratics. 5. English grammar and composition, together with English requirements of the New England association. 6. Plane geometry. 7. One foreign language. 8. One of the natural sciences. 9. Ancient, general, or English history.
Page 260 - Many a teacher has found that, in dealing with . the great and noble acts and struggles of bygone men, he has succeeded in reaching the inner nature of the real boys and girls of his classes, and has given them impulses and honorable prejudices that are the surest sources of permanent and worthy refinement. We may venture to suggest that character \ is of even greater value than culture.
Page 512 - The course of study is divided in two ways: (1) into six sections; (2) into four sections ; each section covering a year's work. Pupils taking the course in six years are classified in six grades, called the fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, and ninth grades. Those taking it in four years are classified in four grades, called grades A, B, C, and D. When pupils ^ 1 1 I W & U) are promoted to the grammar schools they begin the first year's work together.