Annual Report - Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, Volumes 5-7

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Página 141 - Colleges, the Association of American Universities, and the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges.
Página 27 - It shall be the duty of the general assembly, as soon as circumstances will permit, to provide by law for a general system of education, ascending in regular gradation from township schools to a State university, wherein tuition shall be gratis and equally open to all.
Página 25 - The public school system shall include primary and grammar schools, and such high schools, evening schools, normal schools, and technical schools as may be established by the Legislature, or by municipal or district authority; but the entire revenue derived from the State School Fund, and the State school tax, shall be applied exclusively to the support of primary and grammar schools.
Página 54 - There is no spectacle in American life today more pitiful than the contrast between what the college advertises to do and what it performs. The teaching by our college professors is the poorest in the country. The average third year boy in the high shool is more able to think, discuss, and express an idea than the average college student two years older.
Página 73 - ... system. The first of these reasons applies in marked measure to pensions like that of the teacher. Society, as at present organized, desires to get the best service it can out of the various vocations and callings into which men are naturally distributed. In some of these callings great prizes are to be won, and these serve as incentives for high performance. In other callings, like that of the teacher, there are no large prizes in the way of pecuniary reward (it would be a wise thing in society...
Página 37 - Barker, or such or so many of them as shall qualify themselves as aforesaid, shall be and they are hereby declared and established the first and present Trustees. And that the number of the Fellows, inclusive of the President (who shall always be a Fellow) shall and may be twelve ; of which, eight shall be forever elected of the denomination called Baptists, or Antipaedobaptists ; and the rest indifferently of any or all denominations.
Página 31 - That the said trustees and their successors shall have full power and authority to make all ordinances and by-laws which to them shall seem expedient, for carrying into effect the designs of their institution : provided always that such ordinances or by-laws shall not make the religious tenets of any person a condition of admission to any privilege or office in the said college...
Página 101 - Schools was held at the rooms of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, 576 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, on Saturday, January 28, 1911.
Página 60 - Our American scholars seem inclined to drift from one subject to another, taking a. bird's-eye view of each and resting content with that.
Página 56 - The second plan, not as radical as the first, was proposed in order that the high schools might derive as soon as possible some measure of relief from present conditions. This second method calls for — (a) The reduction In the number of so-called "required" subjects, together with— (B) The recognition of all standard subjects, as electlves.

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