Civic Education, Its Objectives and Methods for a Specific Case Group: A Study in Educational Sociology |
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Page 46 - The most important fact about the mores is their dominion over the individual. Arising he knows not whence or how, they meet his opening mind in earliest childhood, give him his outfit of ideas, faiths, and tastes, and lead him into prescribed mental processes.
Page 46 - Loyalty to whatever in the established environment makes a life of excellence possible is the beginning of all progress. The best we can accomplish for posterity is to transmit unimpaired and with some increment of meaning the environment that makes it possible to maintain the habits of decent and refined life.
Page 41 - For if the individual as a separate unit is not independent, he must be a part and must bear the same relation to the State as other parts to their wholes; and one who is incapable of association with others or is independent and has no need of such association is no member of a State, in other words he is either a brute or a God.
Page 42 - The social work function is based on "the recognition of the fact that the individual's normal growth lands him in essential solidarity with his fellows, while on the other hand the exercise of his social duties and privileges advances his highest and purest individuality.
Page 55 - To furnish instruction as to available means for producing political or economic changes, and to furnish, so far as possible, both vicarious and direct training therein.
Page 50 - Some of the important questions of present-day politics — government control of public utilities, the relation of the state to corporate enterprise, and its attitude toward the whole question of capital and labor — are at the same time fundamentally questions of economics ; indeed, the whole theory of government administration is largely...
Page 88 - Christmas day, and any day appointed or recommended by the governor of the State or the President of the United States...
Page 99 - LAW (common law) is that rule of civil conduct which originated in the common wisdom and experience of society, in time became an established custom, and has finally received judicial sanction and affirmance in the decisions of the courts of last resort.
Page 47 - the purposeful act is ... the typical unit of the worthy life in a democratic society, so also should it be made the typical unit of school procedure." (p. 323) The aim of this education would be "the man who is master of his fate, who with deliberate regard for a total situation forms clear and far-reaching purposes, who plans and executes with nice care the purposes so formed.
Page 57 - The school year is much shorter than it ought to be, enrollment of school population is in many States low, daily attendance is often irregular, and compulsoryattendance laws are not always enforced as they should be. The course of study in the small schools is often badly planned and the subjects poorly taught, and financially they are meagerly supported in comparison with what is invested in education elsewhere. Recent educational surveys have disclosed that in certain States the level of school...