Home Economics in Education |
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American Home Economics beginning Boston Bureau of Education Catharine Beecher cation century chemistry child Christian church civilization clothing co-education Columbia University committee Cooking School coöperation Cubberley Department of Agriculture development of home domestic economy domestic science early educa education of women Emma Hart Willard emphasis England established extension farm funds girls Greek high school higher education History of Education home eco Home Economics Association homemaking housekeeping Ibid idea important industrial institutions instruction interest Journal of Home Lake Placid Conference land-grant colleges Laura Spelman Rockefeller leaders learning living Martha Van Rensselaer Mary Lyon ment methods Miss movement nomics nursery school nutrition organization parental education phases problems public schools Purnell Act question religious scientific sewing social spirit subject-matter taught teaching tion United University woman Woman's Education women's colleges
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Page 70 - School ; That where a deaf, poor, patient widow sits, And awes some thirty infants as she knits ; Infants of humble, busy wives, who pay Some trifling price for freedom through the day. At this good matron's hut the children meet, Who thus becomes the mother of the street : Her room is small, they cannot widely stray, — Her threshold high, they cannot run away...
Page 181 - Enlarge the place of thy tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of thine habitations: spare not, lengthen thy cords, and strengthen thy stakes ; for thou shalt break forth on the right hand and on the left ; and thy seed shall inherit the Gentiles, and make the desolate cities to be inhabited.
Page 52 - I thank God, there are no free schools nor printing, and I hope we shall not have these hundred years. For learning has brought disobedience and heresy, and sects into the world, and printing has divulged them, and libels against the best government. God keep us from both"!
Page 177 - State shall provide in its plan for trade, home economics and industrial education that such education shall be given in schools or classes under public supervision or control; that the controlling purpose of such education shall be to fit for useful employment ; that such education shall be of less than college grade and shall be designed to meet the needs of persons over 14 years of age who are preparing for a trade or industrial pursuit...
Page 223 - The funds appropriated pursuant to this act shall be applied only to paying the necessary expenses of conducting investigations or making experiments bearing directly on the production, manufacture, preparation, use, distribution, and marketing of agricultural products...
Page 88 - It occurred to me, that woman, having received from her Creator the same intellectual constitution as man, has the same right as man to intellectual culture and development.
Page 96 - Shall we give our girls the same education as our boys ? Yes, and no. If we mean by the same an equal degree of breadth and thoroughness, an equal fitness for high thinking and wise acting, yes, let it be the same. If we mean this: Shall we reach this end by exactly the same course of studies? then my answer must be, No. For the same course of study will not yield the same results with different persons. The ordinary "college course" which has been handed down from generation to generation is purely...
Page 67 - Romans plainly teaches. The world has need of educated men and women, to the end that the men may govern the country properly, and that the women may properly bring up their children, care for their domestics, and direct the affairs of their households.
Page 88 - It was also in evidence that, for the last thirty years, the standard of education for the sex has been constantly rising in the United States ; and the great, felt, pressing want has been ample endowments, to secure to female seminaries the elevated character, the stability and permanency of our best colleges.
Page 63 - ... out; and whatever should be laid by, you must take account of it and keep it safe, so that the provision stored up for a year, for example, may not be expended in a month.