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050 _aLB 7 .M3 1960
245 0 _aIntroductory readings in education /
_cedited by Frederick Mayer
260 _aBelmont, California :
_bDickenson Publishing Company, Inc.,
_cc1960
300 _aix, 212 pages ;
_c22 cm.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references.
505 _a1. 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.
520 _aThis 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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700 _aMayer, Frederick
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