Education and Vocations: Principles and Problems of Vocational Education |
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acquired activities agriculture appropriate become brake bands called carburetor carpenter cation cerned common concern contrast coöperative course cross-cut saw culture dairy farm deal demands democracy direct discovery division of labor draft horse dualistic economic society effective efficient and appreciative engine environment experience factor facts farmer function Guernsey cattle habit high school ideal individual industry intelligence invention kind knowledge lawyer learner learning leisure less machine means mechanic method milk mind mode mortise and tenon objective observation operation organization particular pattern practice PRELIMINARY QUESTIONS preparatory principle probably problem production prospective pupil purpose pursuit QUESTIONS AND SUGGESTIONS relation relatively responsibility rhinoceros second baseman segregation selection shirt shoe significant situations skill social standards student successful SUMMARY ABSTRACT teacher teaching technique things tion tional utilities voca vocation-mode vocational education vocational preparation vocational school words worker
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Page 240 - The square of the sum of two quantities, is equal to the square of the first, plus twice the product of the first by the second, plus the square of the second.
Page 128 - What mortal in the world, if without inward calling he take up a trade, an art, or any mode of life, will not feel his situation miserable? But he who is born with capacities for any undertaking, finds in executing this the fairest portion of his being.
Page 292 - Of the segregations of educational values discussed in the last chapter, that between culture and utility is probably the most fundamental. While the distinction is often thought to be intrinsic and absolute, it is really historical and social. It originated, so far as conscious formulation is concerned, in Greece, and was based upon the fact that the truly human life was lived only by a few who subsisted upon the results of the labor of others.
Page 207 - a statement of an order or relation of phenomena which so far as known, is invariable under the given conditions.
Page 292 - The problem of education in a democratic society is to do away with the dualism and to construct a course of studies which makes thought a guide of free practice for all and which makes leisure a reward of accepting responsibility for service, rather than a state of exemption from it.
Page 287 - Dewey, the most thoughtful writers upon culture of modern times, appear to agree in one thing. The most certain factor in culture is the attitude and habit of mind that it implies. Culture is a process of valuing life and living it according to the values set upon it. The cultured man values life as a critic in terms of intellectual and emotional standards, and strives so to live that those standards shall prevail.
Page 116 - Education has no administrative functions except those connected with the expenditure of the funds appropriated by the Federal Government for the maintenance of colleges of agriculture and the mechanic arts in the several States, and in Hawaii and Porto Rico, and those connected with the education, support, and medical relief of natives of Alaska.
Page 283 - There are those whose understanding of economic law is such that they believe it possible to saddle the cost of a new school building, a new highway, or a war upon posterity by the issuance of bonds. It is the same naive conception that leads to the belief that society can somehow escape the cost of vocational education by turning it over to industry. By allowing...
Page 289 - My inclination is to answer yes to the first question and no to the second. But this is not the place to pursue these issues.