Education and Industrial Evolution

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Macmillan, 1908 - 320 páginas

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Página 219 - Agriculture, the general designs and duties of which shall be to acquire and diffuse among the people of the United States useful information on subjects connected with Agriculture, in the most general and comprehensive sense of that word, and to procure, propagate and distribute among the people, new and valuable seeds and plants.
Página 85 - The wisdom of a learned man cometh by opportunity of leisure: and he that hath little business shall become wise. How can he get wisdom that holdeth the plough, and that glorieth in the goad, that driveth oxen, and is occupied in their labors, and whose talk is of bullocks?
Página ii - Chief of Irrigation Investigations, Department of Agriculture. Railway Legislation in the United States. By BALTHASAR H. MEYER, Ph. D., Professor of Institutes of Commerce, University of Wisconsin. Studies in the Evolution of Industrial Society. By RICHARD T. ELY, Ph.D., LL.D., author of "Monopolies and Trusts,
Página 33 - Resolved, that the public funds should be appropriated (to a reasonable extent) to the purpose of education upon a regular system that shall insure the opportunity to every individual of obtaining a competent education before he shall have arrived at the age of maturity.
Página ii - Half leather. $1.25 net each. MONOPOLIES AND TRUSTS. BY RICHARD T. ELY, PH.D., LL.D. THE ECONOMICS OF DISTRIBUTION. BY JOHN A. HOBSON. WORLD POLITICS. BY PAUL S. REINSCH, PH.D., LL.B. ECONOMIC CRISES. BY EDWARD D. JONES, PH.D.
Página 64 - Broadly, other intelligence on the part of the workman is useless; or it is even worse than useless, for a habit of thinking in other than quantitative terms blurs the workman's quantitative apprehension of the facts with which he has to do.1 In so far as he is a rightly gifted and fully disciplined workman, the final term of his habitual thinking is mechanical efficiency, understanding "mechanical...
Página 107 - We demand that, in that strange new world that is arising alike upon the man and the woman, where nothing is as it was, and all things are assuming new shapes and relations, that in this new world we also shall have our share of honored and socially useful human toil, our full half of the labor of the Children of Woman. We demand nothing more than this, and will take nothing less. This is our "WOMAN'S RIGHT!

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