Browsing 1910-1919 Theses (MU) by Thesis Department "Education (MU)"
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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 ... -
An age-grade census of Missouri rural schools
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1919)It is the problem of this study to make a diagnosis of the educational conditions in the rural schools of Missouri by means of the age-grade census, to compare these conditions with those of other school systems, to determine ... -
Comparative rankings of normal school graduates and full course university students in the School of Education
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1917)There has been much difference of opinion as to which group of students ranks higher in university scholarship---those who enter the School of Education as normal school graduates or those who spend full four years on the ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Elementary agriculture for city high schools
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1913)The experience of teaching Agriculture in the high school for a number of years has impressed upon the writer the need of a more careful selection of material than is indicated by most of the text book in Elementary ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
First year reading
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1917)This thesis will concern itself with first year reading, and it will have the following aims: 1. To examine the subject matter of first year reading in order to see what values the literature presuppose the child capable ... -
High school records and reports
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1912)School reports published annually are compiled from the records and reports made during the school year, and unless there is something of uniformity in the records and reports kept by the various schools, the reports ... -
Historical data in the study of present-day problems
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1912)Anyone who has read, in educational literature of recent years, the endless discussions as to what is the proper plan of studying history in the high school, or what is the chief aim of the study, whether history should ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Investigation in the teaching of elementary mathematics from the standpoint of choice and arrangement of subject matter
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1911)To one engaged in the teaching profession, or even to a laymen who has come into contact with the educational system of the present time, it is scarcely necessary to present evidences of dissatisfaction regarding the results ... -
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 mental and physical development of rural children
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1918)A. Problem: Are there any fundamental differences between rural and urban children in mental and physical growth and development? If there are differences, are they due to the inborn nature of the children, or to environment? ... -
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 ...