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Excerpt from Educational Review, Vol. 54: June-December 1917 England, Educational tradition in, 366 The new education Bill for, 374 English Education Bill, 423 Is the study of Latin advantageous to the study of 500 Errors in grammar, Oral and written. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work....

Excerpt from True and False DemocracyThe modern newspaper has greatly extended the rule of the formula or the phrase. The head-line of today is the rallying-cry of to-mor row. A motto is substituted for a principle. The words democracy, democratic, undemocratic, are constantly used in this way for purposes that are either bad or misleading. The appeal is to the mob, not to the people.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of tho...

Excerpt from Educational Review, Vol. 23: January May, 1902 The names of contributors are printed in small capitals, subjects treated, in ordinary typ titles of books reviewed, in italics. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally ...

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...

Nicholas Murray Butler was an American educator, a diplomat, and a philosopher. His book entitled Philosophy is the print edition of a lecture he delivered at Columbia University in a series on science, philosophy, and art. When he initially gave the lecture, Butler was the President of Columbia University and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. The original purpose of the lecture was to present a concise view of several scie...

Excerpt from Educational Review, Vol. 45 As a result of the reports the Congress decided to con tinue the Central Committee in power for four years more, and to increase its membership by one. It is the present intention that three international conferences Shall be called for the discussion of general topics, one in France in 1914, one in Germany in 1915, and one in Sweden at the time of the next Congress in 1916. The American reports were ...

Excerpt from Educational Review, Vol. 48: June-December, 1914 The names of contributors are printed in small capitals, subjects treated in ordinary type, titles of books reviewed in italics. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitall...

Excerpt from Why Should We Change Our Form of Government?: Studies in Practical PoliticsWhy is it that in the United States the words politics and politician have associations that are chie¿y of evil ornem? Why is it that in the United States the phrase, to play politics, means to cajole the mob or to descend to practices of doubtful honor? In the true and broad sense of the word, politics is one of man's highest concerns, and nowhere should t...

Excerpt from The Meaning of Education Contributions to a Philosophy of Education The 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...

Excerpt from Educational Review, Vol. 58: Published Monthly Except July and August, June-December, 1919 Robbins (charles L.) The school as a social institution, and White (william Charles) and Heath's (louis Jay) A new basis for social progress, 437. Rugg's (harold Statistical methods applied to education, 73. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com ...

Excerpt from The Effect of the War of 1812, Vol. 7: Upon the Consolidation of the Union The two great motive forces in American politics during the first century of the national existence were the questions of state sovereignty and of slavery. The pressure of the first was almost wholly, yet but temporarily, relieved by the second war with Great Britain, and it was reserved for the great civil war of 1861-5 to put an effectual quietus upon bo...

Excerpt from United States: A Series of Monographs, Prepared for the United States Exhibit at the Paris Exposition, 1900 But 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 no...

Excerpt from A World in Ferment: Interpretations of the War for a New World Since August i, 1914, no American has been quite free to speak in public on the issues and the consequences of the war without bearing constantly in mind the attitude of the Government of the United States. That attitude, which began as neutrality and which on April6) 1917 passed over into participation in the conflict, has in its various stages of development probabl...

Excerpt from Problems of Peace and After-Peace After expressing his high appreciation of the compliment paid him by the Republicans of Passaic County, in inviting him to speak in the city where he had grown up and first taken active part in politics, Mr. Butler gave some personal reminiscences of the political leaders and political controversies of the years between 1883 and 1892 when he himself was very active in the Republican Organization ...

Excerpt from William McKinley and Twenty Years AfterIt seems only yesterday that the shots of that little pistol, carefully concealed in the assassin's hand, were heard 'round the world, carrying horror and consternation to civilized peoples everywhere. For the third time in less than forty years a President of the United States was murdered. That very fact gives us pause. Assassina tion, said King Humbert of Italy, is the professional risk of...

Excerpt from The Building of the Nation Mr. President and Gentlemen of the Associated Press: - For the honor of the invitation to be your guest I am deeply sensible, and for that honor I wish first to express my grateful appreciation. It is no small compliment to be permitted to speak at a time like this to a great company of men, drawn from all parts of our nation, representing every shade of opinion, who are single-minded in their devotion ...

Excerpt from The American as He Is The chapters of this book were delivered as lectures before the University of Copenhagen in September, 1908, in response to the invitation of the Rector and Faculty of that University. It is not easy to speak dispassionately of the institutions and the civilization of one's own country. The most ardent patriot sees many things that he would improve, the most detached critic feels many things that are surpas...

Excerpt from Is America Worth Saving?: Addresses on National Problems and Party Policies All men are by nature free and independent, and have certain inalienable rights, among which are those of enjoying and defending life and liberty, acquiring, possessing, and protecting property, and seeking and obtaining happiness and safety. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www....

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 Addresses at the Several Receptions in Honor of the Royal Italian War Commission in New York, June 21-23, 1917 Your Royal Highness, Your Excellencies, and Gen tlemen: This is an exceptional gathering of a thousand merchants and men of affairs of New York. You have come in the midst of a busy day to bid welcome to this distinguished company of representatives of the Government and the people of Italy, and to pledge once more, publ...