Proceedings of the High School Conference of November 1910-November 1931The University, 1919 - High schools |
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Page 187 - 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 28 - The curriculum of the directed training is to be discovered in the shortcomings of individuals after they have had all that can be given by the undirected training.
Page 18 - If the government can compel such citizens as are fit for military service to bear spear and rifle, to mount ramparts, and perform other martial duties in time of war; how much more has it a right to compel the people to send their children to school, because in this case we are warring with the devil...
Page 101 - Three members of the Executive Committee shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business.
Page 64 - A few citations from the writings of JF Woodhull will give his views of the project method in- science. "The purpose of science teaching in all grades of schools is not chiefly to impart knowledge of subject matter but to train persons in the method of the masters, which is invariably the project method. This is the method used by intelligent men in achieving their ends, in school or...
Page 63 - In the ordinary routine of the farm it may be that the boy is required to tend the poultry. During -at least one year he should be given control of at least one pen of poultry, and facilities for feeding a balanced ration and trap nesting individual birds for comparison of productivity in laying.
Page 62 - A project is a problematic act carried to completion in its natural setting.
Page 65 - ... a method of purposeful experience.' Bobbitt: "Projects are experiences of the work type." Randall: "A school project is a problem the solution of which results in the projection of some object 'of knowledge of such value to the worker as to make the labor involved seem to him worth while.
Page 64 - That he begins in a state of perplexity. "(2) That he works with an intense enthusiasm because this perplexity is the result of a real, pressing, vital difficulty. "(3) Once the difficulty is clearly defined his enthusiasm carries him to a solution by a process which is automatic but which can be described as: "(a) A process of rapid suggestion, supposition, guess, hypothesis or theory — pending further evidence. "(b) 'Reasoning out' the implications of each suggestion.
Page 64 - In commenting on the method of the masters this reference will be explanatory: "The real way to learn fundamental principles is to attack those problems of which life is full for each individual, not through the preparatory fallacy called the scientific method, but by a 'forked road situation.' The school should prepare pupils to walk alone by attacking real problems as Archimedes, Galileo, Davy, Faraday, Pasteur, Tyndall, and all the rest did. Most of us know, if we would think back over our experiences,...