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The principles underlying the selection of a course of study
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1915)
The problem of this study is to find the principles that should underlie the selection of the school curriculum. It is not a scientific investigation of the social and psychological facts upon which the course of study should be based, nor...
A critical review of the theory of education in Plato's Republic
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1914)
Plato, in a sense, outlines two systems of education. He first states and, with a few minor changes, accepts the traditional education of the Greek people. Later he outlines an original system of his own which is to follow and supplement...
Values concerning disadvantaged pupils in differing organizational climates
(University of Missouri--Columbia., 1970)
Educators who have had occasion to visit a variety of different schools and communicate with their respective staffs recognize that each school has its own distinctive characteristics aside from those relating to size, relative wealth, location...
Heredity and education
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1907)
of the ancestry from which man springs, and that most of the traits that he displays are traceable to his ancestors. He has, however, certain traits which are peculiar to himself, and which are due to his environment, to his education, and to his association...
Students and politics in India : Parochialization and policization in a national university
(University of Missouri -- Columbia., 1975)
The methods of missionaries in civilizing savage and barbarous peoples viewed from the standpoint of sociology and pedagogy
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1907)
This thesis assumes that missionaries are a civilizing force. Their work is frequently initial and fundamental in civilizing savage and barbarous peoples. But what is meant by civilization? The significance usually attached ...
A study in sentence structure
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1915)
The present study is a report of the results of the attempted correction of eighteen types of grammatical errors through the "incidental method" of teaching composition. This method as opposed to the "Formal Method" is ...
The evolution of the French novel
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1912)
the shorter styles. It did not exist as a definite type of literature until that apparently unimportant principle of length had set it apart from the rest of fiction in technical requirements and in choice of subject-matter. It is in view of these and similar...
A voice for justice : the Tuscaloosa News views the Autherine Lucy incident
(University of Missouri., 1958)
"This study, 'A voice for Justice--The Tuscaloosa News Views the Autherine Lucy Incident,' surveys the news and editorial presentation of the Alabama journal which found itself in the midst of a segregation issue during a tension-filled month...
John Horne Burns : Toward a Critical Biography
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1985)
The dissertation traces John Horne Burns's life and career as a novelist and English teacher, from his origins in Andover through his literary success with The Gallery (1947), Lucifer with a Book (1949), and A Cry of Children (1952). An Epilogue...
The Old English Herbal in Cotton Ms. Vitellius C. iii : studies
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1973)
and medieval herbal. The herbal is a phenomenon with no modern parallels, and modern scholarly disciplines tend to distort our view of it. Historians of medicine and of science, particularly pre-Linnean botany, deal with the herbal tradition and this MS...
The influence of Carlyle on the social ideas of Ruskin in the period from 1860 to 1884
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1918)
Text from page 1: "To connect the name of Ruskin with that of Carlyle is not a new idea. Every biographer and critic of Ruskin refers to the relation which existed between the two men; all mention especially Ruskin's admiration and respect...
The place names of four river counties in eastern Missouri
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1943)
"...In 1928 the study of Missouri place-names was started at the University of Missouri. Graduate English students interested in the history and linguistics of the names in their own state have chosen to write theses covering from some two to seven...