School & Society, Volume 21

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James McKeen Cattell, Will Carson Ryan, Raymond Walters
Society for the Advancement of Education, 1925 - Education
 

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Page 428 - I find this conclusion more impressed upon me, — that the greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something, and tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for one who can see. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy, and religion, — all in one.
Page 294 - ... inches. Manuscripts not easily legible will not be considered. The name of the writer must not appear on the essay, which should be accompanied by a letter giving the writer's name', school, and home address, and sent to Mrs. Fannie Fern Andrews, Secretary American School Peace League.
Page 103 - A university or college may not place any restraint upon the teacher's freedom in investigation, unless restriction upon the amount of time devoted to it becomes necessary in order to prevent undue interference with teaching duties.
Page 413 - ... schools or make other arrangements sufficient to furnish the children in every locality within the state with equal educational opportunities up to some prescribed minimum; (2) to raise the funds necessary for this purpose by local or state taxation adjusted in such manner as to bear upon the people in all localities at the same rate in relation to their taxpaying ability; and (3) to provide adequately either for the supervision and control of all the schools, or for their direct administration,...
Page 103 - It is desirable that termination of a permanent or long-term appointment for cause should regularly require action by both a faculty committee and the governing board of the college. Exceptions to this rule may be necessary in cases of gross immorality or treason, when the facts are admitted.
Page 103 - Termination of permanent or long-term appointments because of financial exigencies should be sought only as a last resort, after every effort has been made to meet the need in other ways and to find for the teacher other employment in the institution.
Page 449 - Teachers-college section of the New York society for the experimental study of education) Part I consists of papers and studies regarding the standards of the American association of teachers colleges.
Page 62 - Arnold said, with the best that has been thought and said in the world. He must, thus, have breadth; an ample, generous assortment of knowledge must be his mental food ; his contacts must be so many and so sure that he will not lose his perspective in his enthusiasm for his special work. But this enthusiasm must rest upon concentrated power, upon mastery in a limited field. While discovery should not be his first aim, he must have ever before him the resolute desire to venture in the unknown, to...
Page 553 - Throughout the country, finest and silent work has been done by the non-co-operating students. Theirs is a great and noble sacrifice. From a worldly standpoint they have perhaps lost the prospect of brilliant careers. I suggest to them however that from the national stand-point they have gained more than they have lost. They left their schools or colleges because it was through them that the youth of the nation were insulted and humiliated in the Punjab. The first link in Ihe chain of our bondage...
Page 103 - ... (4) Termination for cause of a continuous appointment, or the dismissal for cause of a teacher previous to the expiration of a term appointment, should, if possible, be considered by both a faculty committee and the governing board of the institution.

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