A History of Education in the United States Since the Civil WarHoughton Mifflin, 1910 - 347 páginas |
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... larger share of this revenue was raised in each year by taxation , by both the state and the local corporations . The income derived from local taxation is far greater than is de- rived from what is called " state taxation . " In the ...
... larger share of this revenue was raised in each year by taxation , by both the state and the local corporations . The income derived from local taxation is far greater than is de- rived from what is called " state taxation . " In the ...
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... The State of New York had at one time eleven thousand districts , and the State of Illinois a still larger number . It was expensive in money , it exces- sively increased the number of school officers , it was 29 ORGANIZATION.
... The State of New York had at one time eleven thousand districts , and the State of Illinois a still larger number . It was expensive in money , it exces- sively increased the number of school officers , it was 29 ORGANIZATION.
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... larger number of the states , elected by the people . In some they are appointed by a county court ; in a few they are appointed by the governor or other state officer . The county officer is , in general , subject to the immediate ...
... larger number of the states , elected by the people . In some they are appointed by a county court ; in a few they are appointed by the governor or other state officer . The county officer is , in general , subject to the immediate ...
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... larger liberty . To the field of choice of the freshman year were added physics , geometry , biology , Bibli- cal literature , philosophy , and economics . But the contrast between the last two years of the course of the earlier period ...
... larger liberty . To the field of choice of the freshman year were added physics , geometry , biology , Bibli- cal literature , philosophy , and economics . But the contrast between the last two years of the course of the earlier period ...
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... the formal oration . In this period history has become one of the principal disciplines . It has secured a larger place in the college and has secured a place of no mean proportion in the lower schools . In 86 EDUCATION IN THE UNITED ...
... the formal oration . In this period history has become one of the principal disciplines . It has secured a larger place in the college and has secured a place of no mean proportion in the lower schools . In 86 EDUCATION IN THE UNITED ...
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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 |
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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...