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English secondary schools in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1907)
the close of the fifteenth century came the New Learning giving great impetus to the progress of learning and culture. In the true sense of the word the Renaissance was an educational movement which the Reformation was not. And secondary education under its...
The withdrawal of pupils from school
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1906)
This subject has, perhaps, received more attention and less careful study than any other educational problem. The numerous compulsory school attendance laws, both in Europe and America, testify to the consideration this ...
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 ...
The function of literature in secondary education
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1909)
No subject in the curriculum of the secondary school receives more attention than does literature. This was true in the days when it was to be found only in a foreign tongue and before complexity of interests had given a diversified course of study...
Heredity and education
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1907)
It is evident that there are two important factors in producing a man and making him what he is, one the endowment given him at birth, the other, the environment into which he comes. No one doubts that the natural endowment ...
Village life in Japan
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1909)
to cull from the great mass of written material the few kernels of truth that it contains. One soon learns, however, how very difficult, in fact how nearly impossible, it is for a westerner to gain first-hand information of any worth or accuracy...