Educational Review, Band 16Nicholas Murray Butler, Frank Pierrepont Graves, William McAndrew Doubleday, Doran, 1898 Vols. 19-34 include "Bibliography of education" for 1899-1906, compiled by James I. Wyer and others. |
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Seite 16 - What is it that solidity and extension inhere in," he would not be in a much better case than the Indian before mentioned, who, saying that the world was supported by a great elephant, was asked, what the elephant rested on "? to which his answer was, " A great tortoise :" but being again pressed to know what gave support to the broad-backed tortoise, replied, — something, he knew not •what.
Seite 402 - At a meeting of the board of directors of the National Educational association held in Washington, DC, July 7, 1898, the action of the department of superintendence was approved, and the list of words with simplified spelling adopted for use In all publications of the "National Educational association as followss : tho (though) ; altho (although) ; thoro (thorough) ; thorofare (thoroughfare) ; thru (through) ; thruout (throughout) ; program (programme) ; catalog (catalogue) ; prolog (prologue) ;...
Seite 64 - All at once I felt myself dazzled by a thousand sparkling lights ; crowds of vivid ideas thronged into my mind with a force and confusion that threw me into unspeakable agitation.; I felt my head whirling in a giddiness like that of intoxication. A violent palpitation oppressed me; unable to walk for difficulty of breathing, I sank under one of the trees of the avenue, and passed half an hour there in such a condition of excitement, that when I arose, I saw that the front of my waistcoat was all...
Seite 70 - ... and a field indefinite, without bound or limit. The Pythagoreans make good to be certain and finite, and evil, infinite and uncertain. There are a thousand ways to miss the white, there is only one to hit it.
Seite 15 - I thank God, there are no free schools nor printing, and I hope we shall not have them these hundred years, for learning has brought disobedience and heresy and sects into the world, and printing has divulged them and libels against the best government. God keep us from both.
Seite 447 - ... child, by the several towns for schools during the three years next preceding, unitedly have raised by taxation and appropriated a sum not less than seven hundred and fifty dollars for the support of a superintendent of schools, and that under the provisions of...
Seite 436 - The power of general superintendence vests a plenary authority in the committee to arrange, classify, and distribute pupils, in such a manner as they think best adapted to their general proficiency and walfare.
Seite 22 - In order that any successful graduate of a good secondary school should be free to present himself at the gates of the college or scientific school of his choice, it is necessary that the colleges and scientific schools of the country should accept for admission to appropriate courses of their instruction the attainments of any youth who has passed creditably through a good secondary school course, no matter to what group of subjects he may have mainly devoted himself in the secondary school.
Seite 206 - We must look to our universities and colleges for the people who have learned to understand the fashions and daily customs of a foreign people, and who have learned to connect the surface of their everyday life with the deep national principles and aspirations which mold and govern their individual and social action. Hence the significance of this epoch in which we are assembled to discuss the principles of education and its methods of practice.
Seite 63 - If ever anything resembled a sudden inspiration, it was the movement which began in me as I read this. All at once I felt myself dazzled by a thousand sparkling lights ; crowds of vivid ideas thronged into my mind with a force and confusion that threw me into unspeakable agitation.; I felt my head whirling in a giddiness like that of intoxication. A violent palpitation oppressed me; unable to walk for difficulty of breathing, I sank under one of the trees of the avenue, and passed half an hour there...