An Introduction to EducationScott, Foresman, 1927 - 364 Seiten |
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ability activities adult aim of education American Education arithmetic cation Chap chapter CHARLES HUBBARD JUDD chil child city school classroom coöperation course of study CUBBERLEY curriculum Dewey district dren educa Educational Psychology educational tests efficiency Elected elemen elementary school experience factors facts FRANK MORTON MCMURRY FRASIER function geography give grade growth habits Henry Barnard ideals important individual instinctive institutions instruction interest John Dewey junior high school kindergarten knowledge large number law of effect laws of learning living Mark Frequency means measure ment method of teaching modern nature necessary needs neurones organization Parent-Teacher Association parents period philosophy of education physical possible practice preparation present project method Psychology public schools pupils purpose reading responsibilities school system social society student subject-matter superintendent taught teacher things thinking tion types of teaching United vocational
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Seite 146 - Processes of instruction are unified in the degree in which they center in the production of good habits of thinking. While we may speak, without error, of the method of thought, the important thing is that thinking is the method of an educative experience. The essentials of method are therefore identical with the essentials of reflection.
Seite 332 - No one did more than he to establish in the minds of the American people the conception that education should be universal, non-sectarian, and free, and that its aim should be social efficiency, civic virtue, and character, rather than mere learning or the advancement of sectarian ends.
Seite 28 - It is that reconstruction or reorganization of experience which adds to the meaning of experience, and which increases ability to direct the course of subsequent experience.
Seite 238 - Though the present system of public education, and the munificence with which it is supported, are highly beneficial and honorable to the Town ; yet in the opinion of the Committee, it is susceptible of a greater degree of perfection and usefulness, without materially augmenting the weight of the public burdens. Till recently, our system occupied a middle station : it neither commenced with the rudiments of Education, nor extended to the higher branches of knowledge. This system...
Seite 156 - ... where the purpose is to enjoy some (esthetic) experience, as listening to a story, hearing a symphony, appreciating a picture; type 3, where the purpose is to straighten out some intellectual difficulty, to solve some problem, as to find out whether or not dew falls, to ascertain how New York outgrew Philadelphia; type 4, where the purpose is to obtain some item or degree of skill or knowledge, as learning to write grade 14 on the Thorndike Scale, learning the irregular verbs in French.
Seite 108 - The behavior of man in the family, in business, in the state, in religion and in every other affair of life is rooted in his unlearned, original equipment of instincts and capacities.
Seite 238 - A parent who wishes to give a child an education that shall fit him for active life, and shall serve as a foundation for eminence in his profession, whether Mercantile or Mechanical, is under the necessity of giving him a different education from any which our public schools can now furnish.
Seite 232 - ... every State admitted into the Union since the year 1800, with the exception of Maine, Texas, and West Virginia, has received not less than two townships for the purpose of founding a university. The grants for institutions of higher learning, under this law, have aggregated more than a million acres.2 The second provision by which the National Government encouraged the founding of such institutions was that called the Morrill Act, passed by Congress in 1862. This act provided for a grant of 30,000...
Seite 238 - The mode of education now adopted, and the branches of knowledge that are taught at our English Grammar Schools are not sufficiently extensive, nor otherwise calculated to bring the powers of the mind into operation, nor to qualify a youth to fill usefully and respectably many of those stations, both public and private, in which he may be placed.
Seite 238 - Committee, it is susceptible of a greater degree of perfection and usefulness, without materially augmenting the weight of the public burdens. Till recently, our system occupied a middle station: it neither commenced with the rudiments of Education, nor extended to the higher branches of knowledge. This system was supported by the Town at a very great expense, and to be admitted to its advantages, certain preliminary qualifications were required at individual cost, which have the effect of excluding...