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Page 299 - A connected series of discussions on the foundations of education in the related sciences of biology, physiology, sociology, and philosophy, and a thoroughgoing interpretation of the nature, place, and meaning of education in our world. The newest points of view in the realms of natural and mental science are applied to the understanding of educational problems.
Page 299 - is that, whereas the first was mostly theory with some practice, this is mostly practice with some theory. This volume lays the scientific foundations for the art of teaching so far as those foundations are concerned with psychology. The author is the " middleman " between the psychologist and the teacher, taking the theoretical descriptions of pure psychology and transforming them into educational principles for the teacher. In the Introduction the reader gets his bearings in the field of the science...
Page 299 - It is not another of the many current manuals of practice, but a thoroughgoing interpretation of the nature, place, and meaning of education in our world. The newest points of view in the realms of natural and mental science are applied to the understanding of educational problems. The field of education is carefully divided, and the total discussion is devoted to the philosophy of education, in distinction from its history, science, and art. The...
Page 296 - CUBBERLEY. Syllabus of Lectures on the History of Education. With Selected Bibliographies and Suggested Readings. By Ellwood P. Cubberley. Second Edition, revised and enlarged. In two parts. Part I,v + 129 pages, $1£0 net ; Part II, xv + 361 pages, $1 .SO net.
Page 29 - ... if it was weakly and deformed, they ordered it to be thrown into the place called Apothetae, which is a deep cavern near the mountain Taygetus ; concluding that its life could be no advantage either to itself or to the public, since nature had not given it at first any strength or goodness of constitution...
Page 36 - And added them unto his brother's heap ; Then he went back to sleep and happy dreams. So the next morning with the early sun The brothers rose, and went out to their toil ; And when they came to see the heavy sheaves, Each wondered in his heart to find his heap, Though he had given a third, was still the same. Now the next night went Zimri to the field, Took from his store of sheaves a generous share And placed them on his brother Abram's heap, And then lay down behind his pile to watch. The moon...
Page 35 - Now, that same night, as Abram lay in bed, Thinking upon his blissful state in life, He thought upon his brother Zimri's lot, And said, " He dwells within his house alone, He goeth forth to toil with few to help, He goeth home at night to a cold house, And hath few other friends but me and mine " (For these two tilled the happy vale alone), "While I, whom Heaven hath very greatly blessed, Dwell happy with my wife and seven sons, Who aid me in my toil and make it light, And yet we share the harvest...
Page 295 - It aims to discover how the unit-group of the school system — the " class " — can be most effectively handled. The topics commonly included in treatises upon school management receive adequate attention: the first day of school; the mechanizing of routine; the daily programme; discipline and punishment; absence and tardiness, etc. The Educative Process Cloth, xix +358 pages.
Page 33 - Abram and Zimri owned a field together — A level field hid in a happy vale ; They plowed it with one plow, and in the spring Sowed, walking side by .side, the fruitful seed. In harvest, when the glad earth smiled with grain, Each carried to his home one-half the sheaves, And stored them with much labor in his barns. Now, Abram had a wife and seven sons, But Zimri dwelt alone within his house. One night, before the sheaves were gathered in, As Zimri lay upon his lonely bed And...
Page 297 - HANUS, PAUL H. A Modern School. By Paul H. Hanus, Professor of the History and Art of Teaching in Harvard University. Cloth, 12mo. x +306 pages. $1.25 net. Educational Aims and Educational Values.