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Cost records and reports for public schools
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1913)
What is the efficiency of the school system? This is the first question asked when a consideration of the money spent in the past, or what should be spent in the future, on that particular system, is taken up. To determine ...
Economical learning
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1913)
The great change in our economic life in the last decade has forced its demands for greater skill and more economical methods upon man in every walk of life. These demands have in part been met and satisfied, but much is ...
Mental tests of school children
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1915)
The gradation and classification of pupils, the nature of the curriculum and methods of teaching, have long been vital questions for educators. The mental measuring rods for classification and promotion which have been ...
Teaching of physics in the high school
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1911)
There is much unrest as to physics instruction in the high schools, as evidenced by the many and varied discussions of methods of teaching that subject. No phase of the question has been overlooked, laboratory methods, ...
Acquisition of the Hawaiian Islands : a step in the territorial and commercial expansion of the United States
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1912)
During the Middle Ages, the rulers of the countries of Europe were little interested in colonial or commercial expansion. The questions which interested them were those relating to the increase of the royal power or the ...
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 ...
Field work in high school geography
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1910)
In order to make objective teaching the keynote in geography, field work must be its foundation. Field work, properly conducted, will develop a feeling of self-reliance in the pupil. In using text books as a mine from which ...
History of the academy in Missouri
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1910)
The demand for the academy in Missouri was the same as the demand for it in any other western state - a popular demand for secondary education. This demand was along several lines; first it was to inculcate special forms ...
Philosophy of Horace
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1912)
In a treatise on the philosophy of Horace it is necessary to discuss the following problems: 1) What did Horace know of the different philosophical systems? 2) To what extent do the works of Horace contain references to ...
The importance of problems in the teaching of American history in high schools
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1909)
No invention, no conformity to a new mode of living, was ever brought about by an individual or community except to meet some definite need. Some obstacle, some difficulty, arose which had to be overcome. For example, the ...
An experimental study of methods of teaching high school German
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1910)
The purpose of this paper is to report some experimental work done in the University High School on the methods used and the results obtained in the first year's work in German. Since the methods used in this work are ...
Practical problems depending upon principles of geometry
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1910)
One of the recent questions in education deals with the efficiency of our secondary schools. The question is of vital importance to all classes of educators, but to no class is it more pertinent than to the High School ...
Effective cooperation between rural school patrons and the schools
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1911)
In 1909, ten states had commissions searching out the causes of the wretched condition of schools in the country and villages. While the city schools have improved their courses of study, erected fine buildings, and are ...
University of Missouri as a centralizing factor in the educational activities of the state
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1910)
In many lines of activity to-day, there is a strong tendency toward centralization, for organization is a great solvent of waste. In the business world this has resulted in the corporations of the country. In the state it ...
The manual arts as an illustrative factor in history and geography in the upper grades
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1913)
The experiments herein described were undertaken for the purpose of discovering to what extent the Manual Arts could be used profitably, under ordinary school-room conditions, in illustrating history and geography in grades ...
The incidental teaching of English composition in the high school
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1912)
At the present time, when the efficiency of every department of school work is being questioned, when real improvement is being made in the school as an adequate preparation for life, the question of the value of formal ...
A study in seventh grade subject-matter
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1913)
Two years ago the writer came into the University Elementary School to devote about half time to teaching the seventh grade and the other half to graduate work in the University. As the writer worked along he found that ...
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 ...
A course in elementary high school biology within the students environment
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1915)
This thesis is an attempt at the solution of a problem which has grown out of some discouragements and difficulties experienced in connection with three years of teaching biological sciences to first year high school ...
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 ...