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Page 85 - We content ourselves with the statement that neither in our State policy, in our Constitution, or in our laws, do we find the primary school districts restricted in the branches of knowledge which their officers may cause to be taught, or the grade of instruction that may be given, if their voters consent in regular form to bear the expense and raise the taxes for the purpose.
Page i - A History of Education. By FVN PAINTER, AM, Professor of Modern Languages and Literature, Roanoke College, Va.
Page 82 - ... equal prominence. The academy inspires its intelligence into the work of the shop; and the shop, with eyes open to the improvements of productive industries, prevents the monastic dreams and shortness of vision that sometimes paralyze the profound learning of a college.
Page ii - BROWN. $1.50. 10. How to Study Geography. A Practical Exposition of Methods and Devices in Teaching Geography which apply the Principles and Plans of Ritter and Guyot. By FRANCIS W. PARKER, Principal of the Cook County (Illinois) Normal School. $1.50. 11. Education in the United States : Its History from the Earliest Settlements.
Page 86 - So far as social equality can possibly be reached on this earth, it is attained by the American High School. In other countries it is to be feared that the children of different classes of society, though brought together for a while in the public school, must soon find themselves separated by the whole distance between their respective families; indeed, it must be so, since one child enters on his apprenticeship and thus stops short in his intellectual development at the very time when the other...
Page i - Translated and furnished with ample notes by WN HAILMANN, AM, Superintendent of Public Schools, La Porte, Ind. Price, $1.50, VoL VI.— ELEMENTARY PSYCHOLOGY AND EDUCATION. By Dr. J. BALDWIN, author of " The Art of School Management.
Page 104 - But the great remedy for the particular evil under consideration is intelligent, flexible supervision. Supervision is of doubtful worth when it exhausts itself on the mere mechanism of a school system. It must, of course, secure uniformity and system, but these may be attained without grooving the teachers* instruction or sacrificing their professional freedom and progress.
Page 109 - This want of uniformity in conditions makes the mechanical operation of the system imperfect ; and hence its tendency is to force uniformity, thus sacrificing its true function as a means of education to its perfect action as a mechanism. This is the inherent tendency of the system when operated as a machine, and hence the great difficulty in administering it so as to repress this Procrustean tendency and secure a necessary degree of uniformity without ignoring or forcibly reducing differences in...
Page 108 - Teachers possess unequal skill and power. Pupils do not enter school at the same age; some attend only a portion of each year ; others attend irregularly ; and the members of the same class possess unequal ability, and have unequal assistance and opportunity. This want of uniformity in conditions makes the mechanical operation of the system imperfect, and hence its tendency is to force uniformity, thus sacrificing its true function as a means of education to its perfect action as a mechanism.
Page 169 - I am deeply conscious that one channel of influence has not been pointed out; and here, at the last, I call your attention to the channel opened by Divine power and supplied from sources reached only by him who humbly waits and promptly prays for "that wisdom from above, first pure, then peaceable, gentle and easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy.