School & Society, Volume 12James McKeen Cattell, Will Carson Ryan, Raymond Walters Society for the Advancement of Education, 1920 |
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Page 79 - Said sums shall be allotted to the States in the proportion which their population bears to the total population of the United States...
Page 564 - There is so much good in the worst of us and so much bad in the best of us that it hardly behooves any of us to talk about the rest of us.
Page 326 - To accept literally and spiritually this aim of American education, which assumes obligations to the civilization of tomorrow, requires the most human, scientific, philosophical approach to the whole problem of culture as it is to be solved in America. John Dewey was quite right when he wrote that "there is perhaps no better definition of culture than that it is the capacity for constantly expanding in range and accuracy one's perception of meanings.
Page 15 - Photographs. Applicants must submit with their applications their unmounted photographs, taken within two years, with their names written thereon. Proofs or group photographs will not be accepted. Photographs will not be returned to applicants.
Page 502 - There is no extravagance more prejudicial to the growth of national wealth than that wasteful negligence which allows genius that happens to be born of lowly parentage to expend itself in lowly work. No change would conduce so much to a rapid increase of material wealth as an improvement in our schools, and especially those of the middle grades, provided it...
Page 415 - And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of blasphemy: for the children are come to the birth, and there is not strength to bring forth.
Page 497 - THE whole of the advantages and disadvantages of the different employments of labour and stock must, in the same neighbourhood, be either perfectly equal or continually tending to equality. If in the same neighbourhood, there was any employment evidently either more or less advantageous than the rest, so many people would crowd into it in the one case, and so many would desert it in the other, that its advantages would soon return to the level of other employments.
Page 414 - Church, there is underneath apparent conformity a striking absence of spiritual faith — that faith which is "the evidence of things not seen, the substance of things hoped for.
Page 75 - A thorough system of physical education for all children up to the age of 19, including adequate health supervision and instruction, would remedy conditions revealed by the draft and would add to the economic and industrial strength of the nation. National leadership and stimulation will be necessary to induce the States to adopt a wise system of physical training.
Page 478 - ... B. Hayes, Director of the Division of the Blind, Massachusetts Department of Education, and Mr.