The American Elementary School: A Study in Fundamental PrinciplesCentury Company, 1923 - 422 páginas |
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The American Elementary School: A Study in Fundamental Principles John Louis Horn Visualização integral - 1923 |
The American Elementary School: A Study in Fundamental Principles John Louis Horn Visualização integral - 1923 |
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ability achievement activities administration adult attained attendance basis Bureau of Education cation census chapter character chil child cities classification classroom compulsory education coöperation county unit curriculum deaf definitely demand departmentalization differentiation discussion dren E. L. Thorndike educa Education Bulletin efficiency elemen Elementary School Journal emotional established fact field formal function fundamental goals grade high school highly endowed individual institution intelligence intelligence quotient interest involved legislation Macmillan means ment mental age method modern National Education Association objectives ordinarily organization period phase physical point of view portunity possible practice present principal problem procedure psychology public education public schools pupils purposes question reorganization School Principal school system scientific simultaneous instruction social speech defectives speech disorders standard student subjects superintendent supervision teacher teacher-training teaching theory tion tional to-day truancy U.S. Bureau ultimate unit variation
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Página 304 - The results of such analysis yield seven primary educational objectives: health, command of fundamental processes, worthy home membership, vocation, citizenship, worthy use of leisure, and ethical character.
Página 288 - How to live? — that is the essential question for us. Not how to live in the mere material sense only, but in the widest sense. The general problem which comprehends every special problem is — the right ruling of conduct in all directions under all circumstances.
Página 299 - The facility that a child of 12 or 14 may acquire in the use of these tools is not sufficient for the needs of modern life. This is particularly true of the mother tongue.
Página 298 - Association, has stated the main objectives of education to be as follows: 1. Health 2. Command of fundamental processes 3. Worthy home membership 4. Vocation 5. Citizenship 6. Worthy use of leisure 7. Ethical character...
Página 323 - I don't know much about art, but I know what I like.
Página 291 - The word curriculum is Latin for a race-course, or the race itself — a place of deeds, or a series of deeds. As applied to education, it is that series of things which children and youth must do and experience by way of developing abilities to do the things well that make up the affairs of adult life; and to be in all respects what adults should be.
Página 23 - We therefore recommend a reorganization of the school system whereby the first six years shall be devoted to elementary education designed to meet the needs of pupils approximately 6 to 12 years of age; and the second six years to secondary education designed to meet the needs of pupils of approximately 12 to 18 years of age.
Página 291 - The curriculum of the schools will aim at those objectives that are not sufficiently attained as a result of the general undirected experience. This is to recognize that the total range of specific educational objectives breaks up into two sets: one, those arrived at through one's general experiences without his taking thought as to the training; the other, those that are imperfectly or not...
Página 361 - It is true, nevertheless, that here for the first time education finds its purpose, its process and its means wholly within the child life and the child experience. An appropriate development of childhood is the purpose of each particular stage of education; the child's nature and the child's growth are to determine the process; the child's experience is to furnish the means.
Página 288 - In what way to treat the body ; in what way to treat the mind ; in what way to manage our affairs ; in what way to bring up a family ; in what way to behave as a citizen ; in what way to utilize those sources of happiness which nature supplies — how to use all our faculties to the greatest advantage of ourselves and others...
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Elementary Principles of Education Edward Lee Thorndike,Arthur Irving Gates Visualização de excertos - 1929 |