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Introductory readings in education / edited by Frederick Mayer

Contributor(s): Mayer, Frederick [editor]Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Belmont, California Dickenson Pub. Co., c1960Description: ix, 212 pages ; 22 cmSubject(s): EDUCATIONLOC classification: LB 7 .M3 1960

Contents:

1. On religious education / Jonathan Edwards -- 2. The education of youth in Pennsylvania / Benjamin Franklin -- 3. Notes on Virginia ; Letter to John Adams ; Letter to George Ticknor ; Letter to Joseph C. Cabell ; Letter to William B. Giles / Thomas Jefferson -- 4. On public education / DeWitt Clinton -- 5. A plan for improving female education / Emma Willard -- 6. Town lyceums / Josiah Holbrook -- 7.Infant instruction / Amos Bronson Alcott -- 8. Education of Americans in Europe / Noah Webster -- 9. Plea for free schools in Pennsylvania / Thaddeus Stevens -- 10. Mount Holyoke Seminary / Mary Lyon -- 11. The American scholar / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- 12. Walden [excerpt] / Henry David Thoreau -- 13. Reply to remarks of Boston schoolmasters ; Report on education / Horace Mann -- 14. The kindergartner / Elizabeth Peabody -- 15. Talks on pedagogics / Francis Wayland Parker -- 16. Early days at Tuskegee / Booker T. Washington -- 17. The training of teachers / Stanley Hall -- 18. The psychology of infancy / W.T. Harris -- 19. What is a liberal education? / Charles William Eliot -- 20. The meaning of education / Nicholas Murray Butler -- 21. Talks on psychology / William James -- 22. My pedagogic creed / John Dewey -- 23. On education / Robert Hutchins -- 24. Strengthening the free world / John Fitzgerald Kennedy.

Summary: This book of readings is designed to develop perspective on the part of the reader and to give him enthusiasm for the possibilities of the American school system. Without a fervent faith in education as a way of life, we cannot overcome the cultural lags of our time.

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Item type	Current library	Home library	Collection	Shelving location	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	LRC - Graduate Studies	National University - Manila	General Education	General Circulation	GC LB 7 .M3 1960 c.1 (Browse shelf (Opens below))	c.1	Available		NULIB000012620
Books	LRC - Graduate Studies	National University - Manila	General Education	General Circulation	GC LB 7 .M3 1960 c.2 (Browse shelf (Opens below))	c.2	Available		NULIB000012621

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This book of readings is designed to develop perspective on the part of the reader and to give him enthusiasm for the possibilities of the American school system. Without a fervent faith in education as a way of life, we cannot overcome the cultural lags of our time.

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