Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education, Issues 6-10

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The Society., 1907 - Education
 

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Page 103 - Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, As the swift seasons roll! Leave thy low-vaulted past! Let each new temple, nobler than the last, Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast, Till thou at length art free, Leaving thine outgrown shell by life's unresting sea!
Page 56 - If by some strange chance not a vestige of us descended to the remote future save a pile of our schoolbooks or some college examination papers, we may imagine how puzzled an antiquary of the period would be on finding in them no indication that the learners were ever likely to be parents. "This must have been the curriculum for their celibates,
Page 30 - The problem of prevention should be dealt with frankly. Physicians, as we are glad to see they are doing, should take pains to disseminate knowledge needful for a clear understanding of the causes of blindness. The time for hinting at unpleasant truths is past. Let us insist that the states put into practice every known and approved method of prevention, and that physicians and teachers open the doors of knowledge wide for the people to enter in.
Page 43 - It may be that in the future this kind of initiation will again become an art, and experts will tell us with more confidence how to do our duty to the manifold exigencies, types and stages of youth, and instead of feeling baffled and defeated, we shall see that this age and theme is the supreme opening for the highest pedagogy to do its best and most transforming work, as well as being the greatest of all opportunities for the teacher of religion" (Stanley Hall, Adolescence, vol.
Page 24 - Sharp limits and definite subdivisions within the continuous series of the years of development, withdrawing from attention the permanent continuity, the living connection, the inner living essence, are therefore highly pernicious, and even destructive in their influence.
Page 81 - Physical education is for the sake of mental and moral culture and not an end in itself. It is to make the intellect, feelings, and will more vigorous, sane, supple and resourceful.
Page 61 - ARTICLE VI Meetings. — The Society shall hold its annual meetings at the time and place of the Department of Superintendence of the National Education Association. Other meetings may be held when authorized by the Society or by the Executive Committee.
Page 36 - A degree or diploma of graduation from a college or university recognized by the regents of the university of the state of New York, together with at least five years...
Page 21 - your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make than the members of an harlot ? God forbid.
Page 37 - ... study, which year may be concurrent with teaching experience; and five years' satisfactory experience in teaching in secondary schools or in colleges, three of which shall have been in the New York City high schools. b) Graduation from a college or university recognized by the Regents of the University of the State of New York, and one year's satisfactory postgraduate study, which year may be concurrent with teaching experience; and seven years' satisfactory experience in teaching in secondary...

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