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Excerpt from Monographs on Education in the United States, Vol. 1Spontaneity is the keynote of education in the United States. Its varied form, its uneven progress, its lack of sym metry, its practical effectiveness, are all due to the fact that it has sprung, unbidden and unforced, from the needs and aspirations of the people. Local preference and individual initiative have been ruling forces. What men have wished for that they have done. The...

Excerpt from Education in the United States: A Series of MonographsThe commissioner of education believes the normal standard of enrollment in private educational institutions to be about 15 per cent of the total enrollment. At the present time it is only a little more than 9 per cent, having been reduced apparently by the long period of commercial and financial depression which has but lately ended.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes...

Excerpt from The Meaning of Education Contributions to a Philosophy of EducationThe belief that controls these convictions and opinions is threefold: First, that education, in the broad sense in which the term is here used, is the most important of human interests, since it deals with the preservation of the culture and efficiency that we have inherited and with their extension and development, second, that this human interest can and should b...

Excerpt from Monographs on Education in the United States, Vol. 1Spontaneity is the keynote of education in the United States. Its varied form, its uneven progress, its lack of sym metry, its practical effectiveness, are all due to the fact that it has sprung, unbidden and unforced, from the needs and aspirations of the people. Local preference and individual initiative have been ruling forces. What men have wished for that they have done. The...

Excerpt from Monographs on Education in the United States, And, 16 Summer Schools and University ExtensionThe highest exponent of the institution is its present chancellor, Dr. John H. Vincent, one of the two original founders. He best represents the broad religious, and patriotic spirit Of Chautauqua. He infused into it the idea that all sound learning is sacred, and that the secular life may be pervaded by a religious spirit. Accordingly he ...

Excerpt from Monographs on Education in the United States, And, 16 Summer Schools and University ExtensionThe highest exponent of the institution is its present chancellor, Dr. John H. Vincent, one of the two original founders. He best represents the broad religious, and patriotic spirit Of Chautauqua. He infused into it the idea that all sound learning is sacred, and that the secular life may be pervaded by a religious spirit. Accordingly he ...

Excerpt from Education in the United States: A Series of MonographsThe commissioner of education believes the normal standard of enrollment in private educational institutions to be about 15 per cent of the total enrollment. At the present time it is only a little more than 9 per cent, having been reduced apparently by the long period of commercial and financial depression which has but lately ended.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes...

Excerpt from Educational Review, Vol. 1: Published Monthly, Except August and September, January-May, 1891School Reform, the Prussian Com mission on, 173. 200, 273, 490, in Municipalities, 485, in Philadel phia, 486.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art tec...

Excerpt from La Base de una Paz Duradera: Articulos Escritos por Invitación del New York TimesManifestaciones recientes del Canciller alemán y del Primer Ministro inglés han llevado al público culto a creer que las figuras principales de las na ciones europeas beligerantes acogerían ahora mejor que antes las proposiciones que contuvieran los amplios principios generales sobre los cuales debe establecerse la paz. Participando de esa. Opinión.Ab...

Excerpt from Scholarship and Service: The Policies and Ideals of a National Univiersity in a Modern DemocracyThe papers that follow are an effort to interpret the modern university in terms Of its ideals, Of its prob lems, and Of its counsels. Although the illustrations are drawn from the life Of but one university, the prin ciples which they make plain are common to all uni versities worthy Of the name that seek to minister to the mind and th...

Excerpt from Monographs on Education in the United States, Vol. 2Of study the reader is referred to Professional education in tbc United States, published by the University of the State of New York.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digital...

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Trieste Publishing has a massive catalogue of classic book titles. Our aim is to provide readers with the highest quality reproductions of fiction and non-fiction literature that has stood the test of time. The many thousands of books in our collection have been sourced from libraries and private collections around the world.The titles that Trieste Publishing has chosen to be part of the collection have been scanned to simulate the original. O...

Excerpt from The International Mind: An Argument for the Judicial Settlement of International Disputes States to political science. A judiciary made dependent on changes of popular temper or on varying, often contradictory, manifestations of popular will, would become a mere administra tive device under the control and direction of the executive power of the moment. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare...

Excerpt from The Meaning of Education: And Other Essays and Addresses I Offer these two conclusions as the basis for an educational philosophy. With them in mind I have discussed a number Of concrete problems that are Of present importance not to teachers alone, but to thoughtful parents and to conscientious citizens. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenboo...

Excerpt from United States: A Series of Monographs, Prepared for the United States Exhibit at the Paris Exposition, 1900But while they began to be interested in education it was, because they saw that schools would help the individual and, so promote virtue and extend religion. It did not occur tol them at the first that the safety of the new form of govern-f ment was associated with the diffusion of learning among all the people. This is not ...

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About the Book Books on Philosophy consider the ideas of philosophers through the ages about fundamentals of human values and existence, and how they play out in the activities and behaviors of human beings. Titles include: A brief history of Greek philosophy, A Primer of Philosophy, An Essay in Practical Philosophy, Relations of Wisdom and Purpose, A study of Kant's psychology with reference to the critical philosophy, A short history of Celt...

Trieste Publishing has a massive catalogue of classic book titles. Our aim is to provide readers with the highest quality reproductions of fiction and non-fiction literature that has stood the test of time. The many thousands of books in our collection have been sourced from libraries and private collections around the world.The titles that Trieste Publishing has chosen to be part of the collection have been scanned to simulate the original. O...