Principles of Education Practically Applied

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D. Appleton, 1901 - 199 páginas
 

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Página i - Education In the United States : Its History from the Earliest Settlements. By RICHARD G. BOONE, AM, Professor of Pedagogy, Indiana University. $1.50.
Página 13 - The purpose of education is to give to the body and to the soul all the beauty and all the perfection of which they are capable.
Página 13 - Not only does it include whatever we do for ourselves, and whatever is done for us by others, for the express purpose of bringing us somewhat nearer to the perfection of our nature; it does more : in its largest acceptation, it comprehends even the indirect effects produced on character and on the human faculties, by things of which the direct purposes are...
Página i - BROWN, Teacher in the State Normal School at Worcester, Mass. $1.50. 8. MEMORY: WHAT IT is AND HOW TO IMPROVE IT. By DAVID KAY, FRGS, author of " Education and Educators,
Página i - SCHOOLS : OR, WHAT I SAW IN THE SCHOOLS OF GERMANY, FRANCE, AUSTRIA, AND SWITZERLAND. By LR KLEMM, Ph. D., Principal of the Cincinnati Technical School.
Página 156 - the future citizens of the United States, not the future citizens of Prussia, of France, of England, of China, or of Japan. This must dictate our methods. Nor shall we forget that, although citizens of the United States, they are to be men and women. The particular shall not swallow up the general. We will not educate Spartans; nor shall the general obliterate the particular. We will not educate blank, abstract humanitarians.
Página 14 - Britannica," the end of education is stated to be " to render the individual, as much as possible, an instrument of happiness, first to himself, and next to other beings.
Página 14 - Education is the harmonious and equable evolution of the human faculties by a method founded upon the nature of the mind for developing all the faculties of the soul, for stirring up and nourishing all the principles of life, while shunning all one-sided culture and taking account of the sentiments on which the strength and worth of men depend;" and still more recently we find Joseph Payne saying, "The science of education is a branch of psychology.
Página 14 - Education is the sum of the reflective efforts by which we aid nature in the development of the physical, intellectual, and moral faculties of man in view of his perfection, his happiness, and his social destination.
Página ix - Fifteen that geography, one of the most important of all branches taught in the common schools, is a composite science, or a conglomerate of several sciences united with several arts. Instead of being a defect, this is a most important advantage to an elementary school study, provided the fragments of science brought together are such as may be easily grounded in the child's experience.

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