Learning to Earn: A Plea and a Plan for Vocational EducationBobbs-Merrill Company, 1915 - 421 Seiten |
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Seite 7 - To prepare us for complete living is the function which education has to discharge; and the only rational mode of judging of any educational course is, to judge in what degree it discharges such function.
Seite 6 - How to live?— that is the essential question for us. Not how to live in the mere material sense only, but in the widest sense. The general problem which comprehends every special problem is— the right ruling of conduct in all directions under all circumstances. In what way to treat the body; in what way to treat the mind; in what way to manage our affairs; in what way to bring up a family; in what way to behave as a citizen; in what way to utilize all...
Seite 3 - What the best and wisest parent wants for his own child, that must the community want for all of its children. Any other ideal for our schools is narrow and unlovely ; acted upon, it destroys our democracy.
Seite 296 - ... given only to persons who have had adequate vocational experience or contact in the line of work for which they are preparing themselves as teachers, supervisors, or directors, or who are acquiring such experience or contael as a part of their training...
Seite 6 - In what way to treat the body; in what way to treat the mind; in what way to manage our affairs; in what way to bring up a family; in what way to behave as a citizen; in what way to utilize all those sources of happiness which nature supplies — how to use all our faculties to the greatest advantage of ourselves and others — how to live completely?
Seite 53 - ... is scarcely in any degree owed to the appointed means of instructing our youth. The vital knowledge — that by which we have grown as a nation to what we are, and which now underlies our whole existence, is a...
Seite 313 - Knowledge and learning, generally diffused throughout a community, being essential to the preservation of a free government ; it shall be the duty of the General Assembly to encourage, by all suitable means, moral, intellectual, scientific, and agricultural improvement ; and to provide, by law, for a general and uniform system of Common Schools, wherein tuition shall be 'without charge, and equally open to all.
Seite 7 - They may be naturally arranged into : — 1. those activities which directly minister to self-preservation ; 2. those activities which, by securing the necessaries of life, indirectly minister to self-preservation ; 3. those activities which have for their end the rearing and discipline of offspring ; 4. those activities which are involved in the maintenance of proper social and political relations ; 5. those miscellaneous activities which fill up the leisure part of life, devoted to the gratification...
Seite 57 - When but one-third of the children remain to the end of the elementary course in a country where education is such a universal passion, there is something the matter with the schools. When half of the men who are responsible for the business activities and who are guiding the political life of the country tell us that children from the elementary schools are not able to do definite things required in the world's real affairs, there is something the matter with the schools.
Seite 52 - All our industries would cease, were it not for that information which men begin to acquire as they best may after their education is said to be finished. And were it not for this information, that has been from age to age accumulated and spread by unofficial means, these industries would never have existed.