Public School Administration: A Statement of the Fundamental Principles Underlying the Organization and Administration of Public EducationHoughton Mifflin Company, 1916 - 479 páginas |
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Public School Administration: A Statement of the Fundamental Principles ... Ellwood Patterson Cubberley Visualização integral - 1916 |
Public School Administration: A Statement of the Fundamental Principles ... Ellwood Patterson Cubberley Visualização integral - 1916 |
Public School Administration: A Statement of the Fundamental Principles ... Ellwood Patterson Cubberley Visualização integral - 1916 |
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Página 338 - Our schools are, in a sense, factories in which the raw products (children) are to be shaped and fashioned into products to meet the various demands of life.
Página 17 - ... it would not authorize the conclusion that it might not change the system. To deny the power to change, is to affirm that progress is impossible, and that we must move forever " in the dim footsteps of antiquity.
Página 17 - NE— 10 and the legislature the source of power. The authority over schools and school affairs is not necessarily a distributive one, to be exercised by local Instrumentalities; but, on the contrary, It is a central power, residing In the legislature of the state.
Página 130 - ... men hold dear — the foundation principles of the new work to which they gave the best years of their lives. Doing a pioneer work, and often misunderstood and unappreciated by those with whom they labored, these men patiently blazed a trail for others to follow. As a recent writer has put it, "each traveled the trail at his own gait, with rations and blanket only, and never knowing, though caring much, where each year's tramping would end.
Página 18 - The legislative declaration that every incorporated city is a school district does not import into the organization of the school district any of the provisions of the city charter, or limit the powers and functions which, as a school district, it has by virtue of the Political Code.
Página 16 - Section 3), and is, like every such board, an integral part of the general school system of the state. It is a state and not a city agency, doing state and not city work and functions. Education is not a city, village, county, or town business. It is a matter belonging to the state government.
Página 132 - He is the executive officer of the school board, and also its eyes, and ears, and brains. He is the supervisor of the instruction in the schools, and also the leader, adviser, inspirer, and friend of the teachers, and between them and the board of education he must, at times, interpose as an arbiter. Amid all of his various duties, however, the interests of the children in the schools must be his chief care, and the larger educational interests of the community as a whole he must constantly keep...
Página 401 - The twentieth-century school does the work of the public library and public playground much more efficiently and much more economically. The school employs specially trained teachers to direct the outside reading of children and cultivate an appreciation for good literature. These teachers meet every child for a thirty-minute period on alternate days. By means of stories and reading from sets of books furnished by the public library, the children are interested in the best literature. This literature...
Página 429 - The public only takes seriously those presentations of school needs and conditions which are based upon carefully collected and well-interpreted facts. Only by the use of such data, set forth by means of tables, colored circles, curves, black-line graphs, or other graphic representations, can the people be made acquainted with the whole work of the school, be made to realize where the school breaks down, be brought to understand the necessity of certain adjustments within the school, be brought to...
Página 216 - ... on the recommendation of the superintendent. After this probationary period has been successfully passed, the teacher should then either be reelected for some long period, say four or five years, or placed on indefinite tenure. Under the former the position would be guaranteed for the period stated, subject to reconsideration at the end of each such period; under the latter the annual elections would cease for all time, the teacher being merely continued in the service from year to year without...