A History of Education in the United States Since the Civil WarHoughton Mifflin, 1910 - 347 páginas |
De dentro do livro
Resultados 1-5 de 51
Página 3
... necessary conditions of time and space , are that these two score years represent a distinct educational revival . The intellectual movement of society in the last forty years in America has been a move- ment 3 INTRODUCTION.
... necessary conditions of time and space , are that these two score years represent a distinct educational revival . The intellectual movement of society in the last forty years in America has been a move- ment 3 INTRODUCTION.
Página 36
... intellectual things , he must also have an interest in the materialities which help to constitute a large part of the worth of the school system . He also bears personal and official relations to the teachers of the schools . He is to ...
... intellectual things , he must also have an interest in the materialities which help to constitute a large part of the worth of the school system . He also bears personal and official relations to the teachers of the schools . He is to ...
Página 39
... intellectual and spiritual , but on numerous occasions he is required to re- member that the support of his work is found in the public taxes . A part of his work is done at his own desk in solitary reflection on the conditions ...
... intellectual and spiritual , but on numerous occasions he is required to re- member that the support of his work is found in the public taxes . A part of his work is done at his own desk in solitary reflection on the conditions ...
Página 48
... intellectual tone of society , at cultivating the public mind , at purifying the na- tional taste , at supplying true principles to popular enthusiasm and fixed aims to popular aspiration , at giving enlargement and sobriety to the ...
... intellectual tone of society , at cultivating the public mind , at purifying the na- tional taste , at supplying true principles to popular enthusiasm and fixed aims to popular aspiration , at giving enlargement and sobriety to the ...
Página 53
... intellectual part of his being . . . . The moral or religious influence which a university can exercise , consists less in any express teaching , than in the pervading tone of the place . Whatever it teaches , it should teach as ...
... intellectual part of his being . . . . The moral or religious influence which a university can exercise , consists less in any express teaching , than in the pervading tone of the place . Whatever it teaches , it should teach as ...
Outras edições - Ver todos
A History of Education in the United States Since the Civil War Charles Franklin Thwing Visualização completa - 1910 |
A History of Education in the United States Since the Civil War Charles Franklin Thwing Visualização completa - 1910 |
A History of Education in the United States Since the Civil War Charles Franklin Thwing Visualização completa - 1910 |
Termos e frases comuns
administration American college Amherst College athletic become boys Carnegie Foundation cation cause character Clark University common schools decade dollars educa efficiency elements embodied English enlargement exercise expenditure fact force George Trumbull Ladd German give graduate greater gymnastic Harvard Harvard College high schools higher education human hundred important impressive increase individual influence institutions instruction intellectual interest interpretation knowledge labor laboratory large college last forty lege less Louis Agassiz manual training Matthew Arnold ment method millions mind moral movement nation National Educational Association nature ness normal period physical political principles profession Professor promote public schools pupil purpose relations religious Religious Education Association represents result scholars scholarship schools and colleges securing significant small college social teacher teaching text-book tion tional trustees truth United Univ University of Chicago whole worth Yale Yale College Yung Wing
Passagens mais conhecidas
Página 44 - If then a practical end must be assigned to a University course, I say it is that of training good members of society. Its art is the art of social life, and its end is fitness for the world.
Página 48 - Universities are not intended to teach the knowledge required to fit men for some special mode of gaining their livelihood. Their object is not to make skilful lawyers, or physicians, or engineers, but capable and cultivated human beings.
Página 114 - Then, in such hour of need Of your fainting, dispirited race, Ye, like angels, appear, Radiant with ardour divine ! Beacons of hope, ye appear ! Languor is not in your heart, Weakness is not in your word, Weariness not on your brow. Ye alight in our van ! at your voice, Panic, despair, flee away. Ye move through the ranks, recall The stragglers, refresh the outworn, Praise, re-inspire the brave ! Order, courage, return.
Página 56 - 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.
Página 44 - Works indeed of genius fall under no art ; heroic minds come under no rule ; a University is not a birthplace of poets or of immortal authors, of founders of schools, leaders of colonies, or conquerors of nations. It does not promise a generation of Aristotles or Newtons, of Napoleons or Washingtons, of Raphaels or Shakespeares, though such miracles of nature it has before now contained within its precincts.
Página 45 - It prepares him to fill any post with credit, and to master any subject with facility. It shows him how to accommodate himself to others, how to throw himself into their state of mind, how to bring before them his own, how to influence them, how to come to an understanding with them, how to bear with them.
Página 296 - No such voices as those which we heard in our youth at Oxford are sounding there now. Oxford has more criticism now, more knowledge, more light; but such voices as those of our youth it has no longer. The name of Cardinal Newman is a great name to the imagination still...
Página 257 - An institution to be ranked as a college, must have at least six (6) professors giving their entire time to college and university work, a course of four full years in liberal arts and sciences...
Página 59 - Paraphrasing an Eastern fable, we may say that in the family of knowledges, Science is the household drudge, who, in obscurity, hides unrecognized perfections. To her has been committed all the work ; by her skill, intelligence, and devotion, have all...
Página 45 - He is at home in any society, he has common ground with every class; he knows when to speak and when to be silent; he is able to converse, he is able to listen; he can ask a question pertinently, and gain a lesson seasonably, when he has nothing to impart himself; he is ever ready, yet never in the way; he is a pleasant companion, and a comrade you can depend upon; he knows when to be serious and when to trifle, and he has a sure tact which enables him to trifle with gracefulness and to be serious...