An Introduction to EducationScott, Foresman, 1924 - 274 páginas |
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ability activities adult aim of education American Education arithmetic cation Chap chapter CHARLES HUBBARD JUDD chil child city school classroom coöperation course of study CUBBERLEY develop Dewey district dren educa educational tests EDWARD LEE THORNDIKE efficiency Elected elementary school experience factors FRANK MORTON MCMURRY FRASIER function geography give grade growth habits Henry Barnard ideals important individual instinctive institutions intelligence tests interest John Dewey junior high school knowledge large number Latin-Grammar school law of effect laws of learning live Maria Mitchell means measure ment mental age method of teaching nature necessary needs neurones organization Parent-Teacher Association parents philosophy of education possible practice preparation present project method Psychology pupils purpose reading responsibilities school board Secondary Education social society spelling student subject-matter taught teacher things thinking Thorndike tion types of teaching United vocational
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Página 247 - Neither the art of printing, nor the trial by jury, nor a free press, nor free suffrage, can long exist to any beneficial and salutary purpose without schools for the training of teachers ; for if the character and qualifications of teachers be allowed to degenerate, the free schools will become pauper schools, and the pauper schools will produce pauper souls, and the free press will become a false and licentious press, and ignorant voters will become venal voters, and through the medium and guise...
Página 114 - Processes of instruction are unified in the degree in which they center in the production of good habits of thinking. While we may speak, without error, of the method of thought, the important thing is that thinking is the method of an educative experience. The essentials of method are therefore identical with the essentials of reflection.
Página 184 - A parent who wishes to give a child an education that shall fit him for active life, and shall serve as a foundation for eminence in his profession, whether Mercantile or Mechanical, is under the necessity of giving him a different education from any which our public schools now furnish.
Página 247 - ... will produce pauper souls, and the free press will become a false and licentious press, and ignorant voters will become venal voters, and through the medium and guise of republican forms, an oligarchy of profligate and flagitious men will govern the land ; nay, the universal diffusion and ultimate triumph of all-glorious Christianity itself must await the time when knowledge shall be diffused among men through the instrumentality of good schools. Coiled up in this institution, as in a spring,...
Página 252 - ... life. Education, therefore, in Dewey's conception, involves not merely learning, but play, construction, use of tools, contact with nature, expression, and activity; and the school should be a place where children are working rather than listening, learning life by living life, and becoming acquainted with social institutions and industrial processes by studying them.
Página 248 - No one did more than he to establish in the minds of the American people the conception that education should be universal, non-sectarian, and free, and that its aim should be social efficiency, civic virtue, and character, rather than mere learning or the advancement of sectarian ends.
Página 22 - It is that reconstruction or reorganization of experience which adds to the meaning of experience, and which increases ability to direct the course of subsequent experience.
Página 183 - Though the present system of public education, and the munificence with which it is supported, are highly beneficial and honorable to the Town ; yet in the opinion of the Committee, it is susceptible of a greater degree of perfection and usefulness, without materially augmenting the weight of the public burdens. Till recently, our system occupied a middle station : it neither commenced with the rudiments of Education, nor extended to the higher branches of knowledge. This system...
Página 66 - The behavior of man in the family, in business, in the state, in religion and in every other affair of life is rooted in his unlearned, original equipment of instincts and capacities.
Página 175 - In this constitution there is no mention made of religion, of the church, or of the ministry,3 and in this respect the institution expressed a significant modern note. Two-thirds of the first board of trustees of King's College (now Columbia) were communicants of the Church of England, and, while the college was founded nominally as a civil institution, the condition was exacted that the president of the college should be a member of the Episcopal Church and that the religious service of the college...