Educational Review, Volume 40Nicholas Murray Butler, Frank Pierrepont Graves, William McAndrew Doubleday, Doran, 1910 - Education Vols. 19-34 include "Bibliography of education" for 1899-1906, compiled by James I. Wyer and others. |
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Page 202 - The truth of an idea is not a stagnant property inherent in it. Truth happens to an idea. It becomes true, is made true by events.
Page 185 - But this book also represents the conviction that such is not the case; that the native and unspoiled attitude of childhood, marked by ardent curiosity, fertile imagination, and love of experimental inquiry, is near, very near, to the attitude of the scientific mind.
Page 369 - Commonwealth, may associate themselves together by an agreement in writing for the purpose of establishing and maintaining a textile school for instruction in the theory and practical art of textile and kindred branches of industry...
Page 205 - ... presence. The idea, for example, may be that a certain door opens into a room where a glass of beer may be bought. If opening the door leads to the actual sight and taste of the beer, the man calls the idea true. Or his idea may be that of an abstract relation, say of that between the sides and the hypothenuse of a triangle, such a relation being, of course, a reality quite as much as a glass of beer is. If the thought of such a relation leads him to draw auxiliary lines and to compare the figures...
Page 57 - Every person in parental relation to a child between eight and sixteen years of age, in proper physical and mental condition to attend school...
Page 369 - SECTION 3. Whenever any such city shall appropriate and pay to any such corporation any sum of money, or whenever the trustees or members of any such corporation shall pay into its treasury, for the purposes of the establishment and maintenance of such school, any sum of money, there shall be appropriated and paid to said corporation from the treasury of the Commonwealth a sum of money equal to the total amount thus appropriated and paid; but in no case shall there be paid to any such corporation...
Page 73 - In recommending that university work begin with the junior year of the college, and that the professional schools be based on the first two years of college, the report is in line with present tendencies. It is in accord with the growing belief that the work of the last two years of college should be organized into groups that aim at more definite results and lead to greater efficiency.
Page 369 - ... known as the Trustees of the Textile School of the place in which it is located, and shall have power to fill all vacancies in their number, however occurring, except as otherwise provided in this act. There shall be only one school incorporated under the provisions of this act in one city. SECTION 2. Any city in which such a corporation is organized may appropriate and pay to said corporation a sum of money not to exceed, in any case, the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars, and upon the appropriation...
Page 380 - Do you favor the advancement by subject plan?" while 428 said "Yes," 113 said "No." Promotion by subject was directly opposed by 22 per cent, of the educators responding. Three years later, to practically the same question, and that aimed at the elementary instead of the secondary school, only 31 seem directly to oppose. One excuse for the maintenance of grade promotion is the tremendous power it gives the teachers over the pupils. When they know that failure beyond the minimum of periods of work...
Page 376 - Among the two hundred letters which this circulation brought me was one from President Eliot, who commended that portion of the article "Economy in Education" which treated of promotion by subject. In this letter were these remarkable words: We have reaped now in the public-school system all the benefits of system and uniformity, and it is high time to superinduce in the American schools the opposite benefits of flexibility and variety. Another passage in President Eliot's letter was this: The three...