The Reconstructed SchoolWorld book Company, 1919 - 120 pages |
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academic degrees achieve action alembic altruism appreciation arithmetic aspiration attain beauty become better brother's keeper Brown CHAPTER child civilization Clara Barton common concept coöperation courage course of study democracy develop ditional endeavor enterprise experience fact fail feeling flag form of government Frances Willard gaze geography give grade habit of mastery Harry Smith heart Henry van Dyke hope inculcate induce initiative integrity interest knowledge less lift lives loyalty matter means ment metic mind mother Nathan Hale nations native tendencies never philanthropists Philistines physical present problem pupils purpose reach react reactions reality RECONSTRUCTED SCHOOL respect reverence Rosa Bonheur sense of responsibility serenity seventy-five smile society sound spell spirit spiritual process spiritual qualities stimulate story strive task teaching things thinking thoroughbred thoroughness thousand tion tivate traditional true unison win the goal wireless words worthy yearns zeal
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Page 91 - Beyond this place of wrath and tears Looms but the Horror of the shade, And yet the menace of the years Finds and shall find me unafraid. It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Page 68 - I care not whether a man is called a tutor, an instructor, or a full professor; nor whether any academic degrees adorn his name; nor how many facts or symbols of facts he has stored away in his brain. If he has these four powers — clear sight, quick imagination, sound reason, and right, strong will — I call him an educated man and fit to be a teacher.
Page 69 - ... a school whose pupils should go together each year on long horseback journeys and sailing cruises in order to see the world. Walter Bagehot said of Shakespeare that he could not walk down a street without knowing what was in it. John Burroughs has a college on a little farm beside the Hudson ; and John Muir has a university called Yosemite. If such men cross a field or a thicket they see more than the Seven Wonders of the World. That is culture. And without it, all scholastic learning is arid,...
Page 61 - ... There is a kind of reading which is as passive as massage. There is a kind of study which fattens the mind for examination like a prize pig for a county fair. No doubt the beginning of instruction must lie chiefly in exercises of perception and memory. But at a certain point the reason and the judgment must be awakened and brought into voluntary play. As a teacher I would far rather have a pupil give an incorrect answer in a way which showed that he had really been thinking about the subject,...
Page 45 - tis not what man Does which exalts him, but what man Would do!
Page 68 - ... mountains and trees and flowers? Do you know the tones and accents of human speech, the songs of birds, the voices of the forests and the sea? If not, you need creative culture to make you a sensitive possessor of the beauty of the world. Every true university should make room in its scheme for life out-of-doors. There is much to be said for John Milton's plan of a school whose pupils should go together each year on long horseback journeys and sailing cruises in order to see the world. Walter...
Page 61 - That step is taken when the student, knowing something of the best that other men have thought and said, begins to think his own thoughts clearly through and to put them into his own words. Then he passes through instruction into education. Then he becomes a real person in the intellectual world. The mere pursuit of knowledge is not necessarily an emancipating thing. There is a kind of reading which is as passive as massage. There is a kind of study which fattens the mind for examination like a prize...
Page 66 - As said before, they are not ends but means. They are methods, ways, principles, devices, arts, systems, institutions. In a word, they are inventions.
Page 12 - Truly are the sins of the fathers visited upon the children to the third and fourth generation. God, in his wisdom, has so linked the whole human family together, that any violence done at one end of the chain is felt throughout its length, and here, too, is the law of restoration, as in woman all have fallen, so in her elevation shall the race be recreated. "Voices...
Page 112 - Cooperation, then, is the working-man's guide to the promised land. He should follow it as his pillar of cloud by day, and his pillar of fire by night — save for it, work for it, until it leads him out of the Egypt of his bondage.