Twentieth Century Educational ProblemsHinds & Noble, 1901 - 227 pages |
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Page 210 - Spontaneity is the keynote of education in the United States. Its varied form, its uneven progress, its lack of symmetry, its practical ineffectiveness, are all due to the fact that it has sprung unbidden and unforced from the needs and aspirations of the people. Local preference and individual initiative have been ruling forces.
Page 83 - Harvard University comprehends the following departments : Harvard College, the Lawrence Scientific School, the Graduate School, the Divinity School, 'the Law School, the Medical School, the Dental School, the School of Veterinary Medicine, the...
Page 131 - It must, however, pass thru a serious struggle with many antagonistic elements, and must adjust itself to other similar and, sometimes, stronger agencies. 3. In the process of this struggle and adjustment some colleges will grow stronger ; some will become academies ; some, junior colleges ; the high schools will be elevated...
Page 220 - ... organized and conducted for the purpose of making money. They are stock corporations, the stock being generally held by members of the teaching force, the teachers being chosen, not for their fitness for any particular chair, but because of their willingness and ability to put up the money that is needed. The shorter the course of study, the cheaper the class of teachers; the less expended for books and apparatus, and the easier it is made to be admitted and graduated, the greater the number...
Page 119 - ... education will not spend four years in high school, four years in college, and three or four years in a graduate or professional school. There is a movement to shorten in some manner the whole course of education. Already many colleges and collegiate departments of universities offer electives that will count for one or two years of law, medicine or theology. Already the university system in the form of group electives is introduced into the last two years of college. The outcome will probably...
Page 132 - ... a serious struggle with many antagonistic elements, and must adjust itself to other similar and, sometimes, stronger agencies. 3. In the process of this struggle and adjustment some colleges will grow stronger; some will become academies ; some, junior colleges; the high schools will be elevated to a still more important position than that which they now occupy ; while, all together, high schools, colleges, and universities, will develop greater similarity of standard and greater variety of type;...
Page 132 - No greater acts of heroism or self-sacrifice have been performed on battlefield, or in the face of danger, than those which are written down in the book of the recording angel to the credit of the teachers whose very blood has gone into the foundations of some of our weak and struggling colleges. Blood thus freely and nobly given can never have been given in vain. It will cry out to heaven in behalf of the cause for which it was spent, and this cry will be heard and answered, and new friends will...
Page 35 - Table" of Boston, about 1888, and republished in his little book, The Higher Education? says: " Any one possessed of the requisite information knows at once what is meant by the university of France, the English universities, or a German university ; but no one can become so conversant with facts as to tell what an American university is.
Page 133 - ... mater is something sacred and very tender. Does the true son think less of his natural mother because she is, perhaps, poor and weak, or even sick and deformed? The true college man is and will be all the more devoted to his spiritual mother, if, perchance, in the varying tides of human vicissitudes, she has become low; or if, in spite of long and weary years of struggle, she has failed to grow into full and perfect vigor. There are scores of colleges which live to-day, and in God's providence...