How the United States Faced Its Educational Problem

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Harrison and Sons, Printers, 1906 - 28 páginas

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Página 20 - Congress, according to the census of 1860, for the "endowment, support and maintenance of at least one college, where the leading object shall be, without excluding other scientific and classical studies, and including military tactics, to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts, ... in order to promote the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes in the several pursuits and professions of life.
Página 8 - ... shall be entitled to or receive any portion of the school moneys in which the religious doctrines or tenets...
Página 19 - It shall be the duty of the general assembly, as soon as circumstances will permit, to provide, by law, for a general system of education, ascending in a regular gradation from township schools to a state university, wherein tuition shall be gratis, and equally open to all.
Página 9 - Neither the State nor any subdivision thereof, shall use its property or credit or any public money, or authorize or permit either to be used, directly or indirectly, in aid or maintenance, other than for examination or inspection, of any school or institution of learning wholly or in part under the control or direction of any religious denomination, or in which any denominational tenet or doctrine is taught.
Página 22 - And the entire object of true education is to make people not merely do the right things, but enjoy the right things — not merely industrious, but to love industry — not merely learned, but to love knowledge — not merely pure, but to love purity — not merely just, but to hunger and thirst after justice.
Página 8 - Scriptures, without note or comment, or any selections therefrom, from any of the schools provided for by this chapter; but it shall not be competent for the said board of education to decide what version, if any, of the Holy Scriptures, without note or comment, shall be used in any of the schools; provided that nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to violate the rights of conscience, as secured by the constitution of this state and of the United States.
Página 8 - ... doctrines or tenets of any particular Christian or other religious sect shall be taught, inculcated, or practiced, or in which any book or books containing compositions favorable or prejudicial to the particular doctrines or tenets of any particular Christian or other religious sect shall be used, or which shall teach the doctrines or tenets of any other religious sect, or which shall refuse to permit the visits and examinations provided for in this chapter.
Página 19 - for the endowment, support, and maintenance of at least one college, whose leading object shall be, without excluding other scientific and classical studies, and including military tactics, to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanical arts, ***** in order to promote the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes in the several pursuits and professions of life.
Página 16 - California, afterward United States Commissioner of Education, that in consideration of secondary school curricula, it is now coming to be thought that" what is good preparation for life is good preparation for college. More and more the question of college entrance requirements is coming to be a question as to what is best for the schools ; and a situation in which certain demands of the colleges were once the determining factor, now finds its determining factor in the demands of the public high...
Página 16 - ... preparation for college" and " preparation for life " should coincide. This theory, in its earlier statement, ran as follows : What is good preparation for college is good preparation for life.

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