Education, Volume 44New England Publishing Company, 1924 |
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... United States.1 No. of Schools , 1890 2,526 1900 6,005 10,213 1910 1918 13,951 No. of Students , Population , 202,963 519,251 915,061 1,645,171 62,622,250 75,997,687 91,972,266 105,253,300 Percentage of attendance to population , .32 ...
... United States.1 No. of Schools , 1890 2,526 1900 6,005 10,213 1910 1918 13,951 No. of Students , Population , 202,963 519,251 915,061 1,645,171 62,622,250 75,997,687 91,972,266 105,253,300 Percentage of attendance to population , .32 ...
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... United States have readily reorganized their social studies to carry out , as far as consistent with special circumstances , the recommendations 24 School Review , Vol . 28 , p . 270-2 . 25 Journal of Political Economy , Feb. 1922 , p ...
... United States have readily reorganized their social studies to carry out , as far as consistent with special circumstances , the recommendations 24 School Review , Vol . 28 , p . 270-2 . 25 Journal of Political Economy , Feb. 1922 , p ...
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... United States and of the world , on the death of President Harding , is in some respects different from the manifestations of sorrow that followed the passing of Lincoln , Gar- field and McKinley , -the only other Presidents who have ...
... United States and of the world , on the death of President Harding , is in some respects different from the manifestations of sorrow that followed the passing of Lincoln , Gar- field and McKinley , -the only other Presidents who have ...
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... United States During the Last Fifty Years . " The Editor wrote about the " Reasons for the New Educational Magazine , " the " Mun- della Educational Bill , " the " Concord School of Philosophy , " which was being carried on by Ralph ...
... United States During the Last Fifty Years . " The Editor wrote about the " Reasons for the New Educational Magazine , " the " Mun- della Educational Bill , " the " Concord School of Philosophy , " which was being carried on by Ralph ...
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... the Post Office at Boston , Mass . , as second - class mail matter Copyright 1923 , in the United States and Canada , by The Palmer Company Price 40 Cents $ 4.00 a Year These Notable One - volume Histories Elson : Published in.
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Page 16 - ... whose mind is stored with a knowledge of the great and fundamental truths of Nature and of the laws of her operations; one who, no stunted ascetic, is full of life and fire, but whose passions are trained to come to heel by a vigorous will, the servant of a tender conscience; who has learned to love all beauty, whether of Nature or of art, to hate all vileness, and to respect others as himself.
Page 508 - Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates and men decay: Princes and lords may flourish or may fade; A breath can make them, as a breath has made; But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied.
Page 101 - DURING the first year that Mr. Wordsworth and I were neighbours, our conversations turned frequently on the two cardinal points of poetry, the power of exciting the sympathy of the reader by a faithful adherence to the truth of nature, and the power of giving the interest of novelty by the modifying colours of imagination.
Page 101 - To move away the ringlet curl From the lovely lady's cheek — There is not wind enough to twirl The one red leaf, the last of its clan, That dances as often as dance it can, Hanging so light, and hanging so high, On the topmost twig that looks up at the sky.
Page 15 - That man, I think, has had a liberal education who has been so trained in youth that his body is the ready servant of his will, and does with ease and pleasure all the work that, as a mechanism, it is capable of...
Page 101 - Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues can poison truth; And constancy lives in realms above; And life is thorny; and youth is vain; And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain.
Page 228 - The man Of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys. Power, like a desolating pestilence, Pollutes whate'er it touches ; and obedience, Bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth, Makes slaves of men, and, of the human frame, A mechanized automaton.
Page 191 - The great men of culture are those who have had a passion for diffusing, for making prevail, for carrying from one end of society to the other, the best knowledge, the best ideas of their time...
Page 278 - There is so much good in the worst of us and so much bad in the best of us that it hardly behooves any of us to talk about the rest of us.
Page 17 - Consequently, education in a democracy, both within and without the school, should develop in each individual the knowledge, interests, ideals, habits, and powers whereby he will find his place and use that place to shape both himself and society toward ever nobler ends .... This commission, therefore, regards the following as the main objectives of education: 1.