Nationalism and Education Since 1789: A Social and Political History of Modern Education

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Macmillan, 1922 - Education - 575 pages
 

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Page 421 - Washington, a department of education, for the purpose of collecting such statistics and facts as shall show the condition and progress of education in the several States and Territories, and of diffusing such information respecting the organization and management of schools and school systems, and methods of teaching, as shall aid the people of the United States in the establishment and maintenance of efficient school systems and otherwise promote the cause of education throughout the country.
Page 477 - That in order to aid in diffusing among the people of the United States useful and practical information on subjects relating to agriculture and home economics, and to encourage the application of the same...
Page 378 - Board, collect information of the actual condition and efficiency of the Common Schools, and other means of popular education, and diffuse as widely as possible, throughout every part of the Commonwealth, information of the most approved and successful methods of arranging the studies and conducting the education of the young...
Page 261 - It is not easy to estimate the degree in which the English people are indebted to these schools for the qualities on which they pique themselves most - for their capacity to govern others and control themselves, their aptitude for combining freedom with order, their public spirit, their vigour and manliness of character, their strong but not slavish respect for public opinion, their love of healthy sports and exercise.
Page 261 - These schools have been the chief nurseries of our statesmen ; in them, and in schools modelled after them, men of all the various classes that make up English society, destined for every profession and career, have been brought up on a footing of social equality, and have contracted the most enduring friendships, and some of the ruling habits, of their lives; and they have had perhaps the largest share in moulding the character of an English gentleman.
Page 271 - State leaving the initiative to volunteers .is that where State help has been most wanted State help has been least given, and that where it was desirable that State power should be most felt, it was not felt at all.
Page 225 - Wellington is supposed to have said that the Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton.
Page 286 - to consider what are the best methods of establishing a wellorganized system of secondary education in England, taking into account existing deficiencies, and having regard to such local sources of revenue from endowment, or otherwise, as are available, or may be made available for this purpose, and to make recommendations accordingly.
Page 250 - State of Popular Education in England, and to consider and report what measures, if any, are required for the Extension of sound and cheap Elementary Instruction to all Classes of the People.
Page 320 - States, to devise such further provisions as shall appear to them necessary to render the constitution of the federal government adequate to the exigencies of the union...

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