The Formulation of Standards of Curriculum-making in Secondary Education

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1925 - 410 pages
 

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Page 59 - ... and it is further ordered, that, where any town shall increase to the number of one hundred families or householders, they shall set up a grammar school, the master thereof being able to instruct youth so far as they may be fitted for the university...
Page 30 - Just so it is in the mind; would you have a man reason well, you must use him to it betimes, exercise his mind in observing the connection of ideas and following them in train. Nothing does this better than mathematics, which therefore I think should be taught all those who have the time and opportunity, not so much to make them mathematicians as to make them reasonable creatures...
Page 63 - As to their STUDIES, it would be well if they could be taught every Thing that is useful, and every Thing that is ornamental: But Art is long, and their Time is short. It is therefore propos'd that they learn those Things that are likely to be most useful and most ornamental Regard being had to the several Professions for which they are intended.
Page 30 - HATE mentioned mathematics as a way to settle in the mind a habit of reasoning closely and in train ; not that I think it necessary that all men should be deep mathematicians, but that having got the way of reasoning, which that study necessarily brings the 5 mind to, they might be able to transfer it to other parts of knowledge as they shall have occasion.
Page 29 - I call, therefore, a complete and generous education that which fits a man to perform justly, skillfully, and magnanimously all the offices both private and public, of peace and war.
Page 88 - The Association recommends the following types of courses as meeting the spirit of this standard: Educational psychology, principles of secondary education, theory of teaching, special methods in subject taught, observation and practice of teaching, history of education, educational sociology, and school administration and supervision.
Page 87 - A unit course of study in a secondary school is defined as a course covering an academic year that shall include, in the aggregate, not less than the equivalent of one hundred...
Page 60 - The obligation to furnish this education rests primarily upon the parent. 3. The State has a right to enforce this obligation. 4. The State may fix a standard which shall determine the kind of education, and the minimum amount. 5. Public money, raised by general tax, may be used to provide such education as the State requires. The tax may be general, though the school attendance is not. 6. Education higher than the rudiments may be supplied by the State. Opportunity must be provided, at public expense,...
Page 86 - The location and construction of the buildings, the lighting, heating, and ventilation of the rooms, the nature of the lavatories, corridors, closets, water supply, school furniture, apparatus, and methods of cleaning shall be such as to insure hygienic conditions for both pupils and teachers.
Page 87 - The efficiency of instruction, the acquired habits of thought and study, the general intellectual and moral tone of a school, are paramount factors, and therefore only schools which rank well in these particulars, as evidenced by rigid, thorough-going, sympathetic inspection, shall be considered eligible for the list.

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