Teachers College Record, Volume 19

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Teachers College, Columbia University, 1918 - Education
 

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Page 318 - When a bond is ready to act, to act gives satisfaction and not to act gives annoyance. When a bond is not ready to act, to act gives annoyance and not to act gives satisfaction.
Page 316 - We scorn the man who passively accepts what fate or some other chance brings to him. We admire the man who is master of his fate, who with deliberate regard for a total situation forms clear and far-reaching purposes, who plans and executes with nice care the purposes so formed. A man who habitually so regulates his life with reference to worthy social aims meets at once the demands for practical efficiency and of moral responsibility. Such a one presents the ideal of democratic citizenship.
Page 388 - These committees with the members of the executive committee and the board of trustees of the National Education Association, met in Washington, March 7-9, and completed the organization of a joint commission on the national emergency in education and the program for readjustment during and after the war.
Page 287 - The formal systems of the past have used symptoms merely additively and often with only an 'all or none' credit. They have not allowed for the undue duplication of credits by intercorrelations, and have not sensed the importance of the multiplying effect of certain traits upon others. The competent impressionistic judge of men does respond to these interrelations of the facts and sums up in his estimate a consideration of each in the light of the others. If there are ten traits involved, say ten...
Page 123 - For pedagogical purposes, the materials of most significance in the industries are (i) foods, (2) textiles, (3) woods, (4) metals, and (5) clays and other allied earth materials. Fuels, supplying great industries in themselves, occupy a middle ground between industrial materials and the motive power employed in the industrial arts. Commerce is that industry which uses the products...
Page 306 - Reconstruction has announced that hereafter no member of the military service disabled in line of duty, even though not expected to return to duty, will be discharged from service until he has attained complete recovery or as complete recovery as it is to be expected that he will attain when the nature of his disability is considered.
Page 459 - This is a natural movement used by man in throwing a ball at an object. In learning movements that involve complex co-ordinations, do not think of the "end" of the movement, but keep clearly in mind the "means" to that end. Follow closely the directions for arm, leg, and trunk movement, and the co-ordination will come. 'This movement is a powerful trunk exercise. It uses the back and side muscles and brings into play the large muscles of both arms and both legs. The first part of the movement (Fig.
Page 327 - ... learning to write grade 14 on the Thorndike Scale, learning the irregular verbs in French. It is at once evident that these groupings more or less overlap and that one type may be used as means to another as end. It may be of interest to note that with these definitions the project method logically includes the problem method as a special case. The value of such a classification as that here given seems to me to lie in the light it should throw on the kind of projects teachers may expect and...
Page 326 - I, where the purpose is to embody some idea or plan in external form, as building a boat, writing a letter, presenting a play; type 2, where the purpose is to enjoy some (esthetic) experience, as listening to a story, hearing a symphony, appreciating a picture...
Page 318 - The law that most concerns us in this discussion is that of Effect: when a modifiable bond acts, it is strengthened or weakened according as satisfaction or annoyance results. The ordinary psychology of common observation has not been so conscious of these two laws as it has of the third law, that of Exercise; but for our present purposes, repetition simply means the continued application of the law of Effect. 1 There are yet other laws necessary for a full explanation of the facts of learning. Our...

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