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Side-lights on Astronomy and Kindred Fields
by Simon NewcombIn preparing and issuing this collection of essays and addresses, the author has yielded to what he could not but regard as the too flattering judgment of the publishers. Having done this, it became incumbent to do what he could to justify their good opinion by revising the material and bringing it up to date. Interest rather than unity of thought ..
Service by the Educated Negro
by Roscoe Conkling BruceWhen George William Curtis had received from Harvard her greatest degree, he arose at the Alumni Dinner and said, “In the old Italian story the nobleman turns out of the hot street crowded with eager faces into the coolness and silence of his palace. As he looks at the pictures of the long line of ancestors he hears a voice,—or is it his own heart ..
Brief for the higher education of the negro
by Kelly MillerThe education of the Negro is not of itself a thing apart, but is an integral factor of the general pedagogic equation. Race psychology has not yet been formulated. No reputable authority has pointed out just wherein the two races differ in any evident mental feature. The mind of the Negro is of the same nature as that of the white man and needs th..
Old Greek Education
by J. P. MahaffyWe hear it often repeated that human nature is the same at all times and in all places; and this is urged at times and places where it is so manifestly false that we feel disposed peremptorily to deny it when paraded to us as a general truth. The fact is that only in its lower activities does human nature show any remarkable uniformity; so far as m..
Practical School Discipline - Applied Methods, Part 1
by Ray Coppock BeeryWith this second book of Practical School Discipline, we wish to send to each member of the Teachers’ Club our personal word of greeting. Applied Methods was written for you. Primarily it was written for you only. It is a book to help teachers, by means of teachers’ experiences. We believe it will lighten your work, brighten your school room, and l..
Learning to Spell - A Manual for Teachers Using the Aldine Speller
by Catherine T. BryceAre we spelling as well in our schools today as our forefathers did in the little red schoolhouse? This is the question that has been asked many times but no one has been able to answer it in any convincing way. There have been advocates of both sides of the question. The fact remains that no one knows. We do not know how well children could spell ..
The Goose-step - A Study of American Education
by Upton SinclairWhat is the so-called “higher education” of these United States? You have taken it, for the most part, on faith. It is something which has come to be; it is big and impressive, and you are impressed. Every year you pay a hundred million dollars of public funds to help maintain it, and half that amount in tuition fees for your sons and daughters. Yo..
The Art of Story-Telling
by Julia Darrow CowlesIn preparing this book the author has sought to awaken a keener perception and a higher appreciation of the artistic and ethical value of story-telling; to simplify some of its problems; to emphasize the true delight which the story-teller may share with her hearers; and to present fresh material which answers to the test of being good in substance..