The School as a Social Institution: An Introduction to the Study of Social Education

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Allyn and Bacon, 1918 - 470 oldal

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95. oldal - Then after divers meetings and consults of our whole number to consider the former labours and collections, we have three that take care out of them to direct new experiments, of a higher light more penetrating into Nature than the former.
24. oldal - The first duty of government, and the surest evidence of good government, is the encouragement of education. A general diffusion of knowledge is the precursor and protector of republican institutions ; and in it we must confide as the conservative power that will watch over our liberties, and guard them against fraud, intrigue, corruption and violence.
94. oldal - The end of our foundation is the knowledge of causes, and secret motions of things; and the enlarging of the bounds of human empire, to the effecting of all things possible.
23. oldal - ... long be preserved unless the society in every district, in all its members, possesses that portion of useful knowledge which is necessary to qualify them to discharge with credit and effect, those great duties of citizens on which free Government rests. The responsibility of public servants, however well provided for by the Constitution, becomes vain and useless if the people in general are not competent judges, in the course of the Administration, of all the questions which it involves. If it...
94. oldal - For the several employments and offices of our fellows ; we have twelve that sail into foreign countries, under the names of other nations, (for our own we conceal ;) who bring us the books, and abstracts, and patterns of experiments of all other parts.4 These we call Merchants of Light.
423. oldal - ... training beyond the elementary schools. Her salary at her present age is $485 a year. She is native born of native-born parents, both of whom speak the English language. When she entered teaching both of her parents were living and had an annual income of approximately $800. which they were compelled to use to support themselves and their four or five children. The young woman early found the pressure, both real and anticipated, to earn her own way very heavy.
423. oldal - As teaching was regarded as a highly respectable calling, and as the transfer from the schoolroom as a student to it as a teacher was but a step, she decided upon teaching. Her first experience as a teacher was gotten in the rural school, where she remained but two years. If she went from there to a town school, her promotion was based almost solely upon her experience, as no additional training was required by the officials of the town. If she desired to teach in a city school, she was compelled...
35. oldal - For all but a few exceptional, and generally highly cultivated, persons the one essential condition of recreation is the being one of a crowd. The normal daily recreation of the population of our towns is to go out in the evening and to walk up and down the streets in which the throng is densest — the Strand, Oxford Street, or the Old Kent Road...
227. oldal - organization, pledged to some change in city or state or national administration ; it was just to be the restoration of its true place in social life of that most American of all institutions, the Public School Center, in order that through this extended use of the school building might be developed, in the midst of our complex life, the community interest, the neighborly spirit, the democracy that we knew before we came to the city.
95. oldal - We have three that collect the experiments which are in all books. These we call Depredators. "We have three that collect the experiments of all mechanical arts, and also of liberal sciences, and also of practices which are not brought into arts. These we call Mystery men. "We have three that try new experiments such as themselves think good. These we call Pioneers or Miners.

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