Education, Volume 44New England Publishing Company, 1924 |
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... period of transition . The pull leftward is strong , but this is more than counter - weighed by the great number of schools throughout the country which still find themselves in the old rut , or which have responded only with slight ...
... period of transition . The pull leftward is strong , but this is more than counter - weighed by the great number of schools throughout the country which still find themselves in the old rut , or which have responded only with slight ...
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... period of time , say twenty years ; careful and extended research to determine what are the un- solved issues and problems of the day ; the consensus of judg- ment of about one hundred of our most noted savants in the fields of ...
... period of time , say twenty years ; careful and extended research to determine what are the un- solved issues and problems of the day ; the consensus of judg- ment of about one hundred of our most noted savants in the fields of ...
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... period of habit formation in speech is well advanced . A complete segregation of grammar teaching into a period of The Question of Teaching English 31.
... period of habit formation in speech is well advanced . A complete segregation of grammar teaching into a period of The Question of Teaching English 31.
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A complete segregation of grammar teaching into a period of so many weeks of intensive study and exercise in the last years of school work is not only useless but fatal to the suc- cess of the project . Grammatical instruction at this ...
A complete segregation of grammar teaching into a period of so many weeks of intensive study and exercise in the last years of school work is not only useless but fatal to the suc- cess of the project . Grammatical instruction at this ...
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... period , not in general as a separate topic , but in con- nection with the numerical problems arising in other work . " " On the side of Algebra , the ability to understand its language and to use it intelligently , the ability to ...
... period , not in general as a separate topic , but in con- nection with the numerical problems arising in other work . " " On the side of Algebra , the ability to understand its language and to use it intelligently , the ability to ...
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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.