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" Fifteen minutes a day of good reading would have given any one of this multitude a really human life. The uplifting of the democratic masses depends on this implanting at school of the taste for good reading. "
Special Reports on Educational Subjects - Page 546
by Great Britain. Board of Education - 1902
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Wisconsin Journal of Education, Volume 27

1897 - 404 pages
...education; and that schooling which does not result in implanting this permanent taste has failed. The uplifting of the democratic masses depends on...function of the public school in a democracy is the discovery and development of the gift or capacity of each individual child. This discovery should be...
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Wisconsin Journal of Education, Volume 28

1898 - 404 pages
...implanting this permanent taste, has failed. The uplifting of the democratic masses of our country depends on this implanting at school of the taste for good reading." MARGUERITE DALY. Washburn, Wis. OFFICIAL DEPARTMENT. REPORT OF FORTY-FIFTH ANNUAL SESSION, WISCONSIN...
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Report of the Board of Directors

St. Louis Public Library - 1894 - 658 pages
...grows older, he will live in a mental atmosphere which is always growing thinner and emptier. . . . The uplifting of the democratic masses depends on...implanting at school of the taste for good reading." But, since it is a universally accepted maxim that, as John Fiske puts it, "an ounce of Vinland is...
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American Primary Teacher, Volumes 29-30

1910 - 916 pages
...know many people who seem to live in a mental vacuum — to wliom, indeed, we have great dilBculty in attributing immortality, because they apparently have...really human life. The uplifting of the democratic massen depends on this implanting at school of the taste for good reading. — Charles W. Eliot, in...
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Journal of Pedagogy, Volume 11

Albert Leonard, William Henry Metzler, Jacob Richard Street - 1898 - 372 pages
...have great difficulty in attributing immortality, because they apparently have so little lifeexcept that of the body? Fifteen minutes a day of good reading...function of the public school in a democracy is the discovery and development of the gift or capacity of each individual child. This discovery should be...
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Educational Reform: Essays and Addresses

Charles William Eliot - 1898 - 434 pages
...nany people who seenf to live in a mental vacuum 407 — to whom, indeed, we have great difficulty in attributing immortality, because they apparently have...life. The uplifting of the democratic masses depends _| ^ ( __^ V on this implanting at school of the taste for good reading. % — ">Another important...
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Educational Reform: Essays and Addresses

Charles William Eliot - 1898 - 440 pages
...know many people who seem to live in a mental vacuum — to whom, indeed, we have great difficulty in attributing immortality, because they apparently have so little life except that of the body T Fifteen minutes a day of good reading would have given any one of this multitude a really human life....
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Educational Nuggets: Plato, Aristotle, Rousseau, Herbart, Spencer, Harris ...

John Raymond Howard - 1899 - 236 pages
...for interesting and improving reading, which should direct and inspire its subsequent intellectual life. . . . The uplifting of the democratic masses...function of the public school in a democracy is the discovery and development of the gift or capacity of each individual child. ... It is one of the main...
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Proceedings of the ... Convocation, Volume 38

University of the State of New York - 1900 - 804 pages
...he grows older, he will live in a mental atmosphere which is always growing thinner and emptier. . . The uplifting of the democratic masses depends on...implanting at school of the taste for good reading. In Charles Dudley Warner's latest novel, a youth who goes to college from a first-rate preparatory...
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An Ideal School ; Or, Looking Forward

Preston Willis Search - 1901 - 398 pages
...President Eliot, in his admirable article on The Function of Education in Democratic Society,* has said: " Another important function of the public school in a democracy is the discovery and development of the gift or capacity of each individual child. This discovery should be...
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