School Science and Mathematics, Volume 20Smith & Turton, 1920 - Education |
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Page 157 - Consequently, education in a democracy, both within and without the school, should develop in each individual the knowledge, interests, ideals, habits, and powers whereby he will find his place and use that place to shape both himself and society toward ever nobler ends .... This commission, therefore, regards the following as the main objectives of education: 1.
Page 165 - The old order changeth, yielding place to new, And God fulfills himself in many ways, Lest one good custom should corrupt the world.
Page 418 - The squares of the periods of the planets are proportional to the cubes of their mean distances from the sun ; that is, ti2 : k2 ,• ,• ai3 ,• (h3This is the so-called harmonic law.
Page 20 - (1) A desire to understand the meaning and use of some fact, phenomenon, or experience. This leads to questions and problems. (2) A conviction that it is worth while and possible to secure an understanding of the thing in question. This causes one to work with an impelling interest. (3) The gathering from experience, books and experiments of the needed information, and the application of this information to answer the question in hand.
Page 293 - I offer as evidences of an education — correctness and precision in the use of the mother-tongue ; refined and gentle manners, which are the expression of fixed habits of thought and action ; the power and habit of reflection ; the power of growth ; and efficiency, or the power to do.
Page 476 - Louis in connection with the meeting of the Department of superintendence of the National education association, February 27-29, 1912.
Page 312 - Germans achieved by autocratic methods in an autocracy whale avoiding the obnoxious features of the autocratic regime. The council was organized in 1916 as a measure of national preparedness and its efforts during the war were mostly confined to assisting the government in the solution of pressing war-time problems involving scientific investigation. Reorganized since the war on a peace-time footing, it is now attempting to stimulate and promote scientific research in agriculture, medicine, and industry,...
Page 494 - Germany, have been estimated to occupy a volume of 10,790,000,000 cubic meters and to contain 20,000,000,000 metric tons of potash salts, corresponding to about 2,000,000,000 metric tons of potash (K2O), a quantity sufficient to supply the world for 2,000 years at the present rate of consumption. These beds...
Page 363 - ... to Mr. Carnegie's great contributions to science and industry. The Council is a democratic organization based upon some forty of the great scientific and engineering societies of the country, which elect delegates to its constituent divisions. It is not supported or controlled by the government, differing in this respect from other similar organizations established since the beginning of the war in England, Italy, Japan, Canada and Australia. It intends, if possible, to achieve in a democracy...
Page 264 - The primary purposes of the teaching of mathematics should be to develop those powers of understanding and of analyzing relations of quantity and of space which are necessary to an insight into and control over our environment and to an appreciation of the progress of civilization in its various aspects, and to develop those habits of thought and of action which will make these powers effective in the life of the individual.