Download or read book The Trend in Higher Education Classic Reprint written by William Rainey Harper and published by . This book was released on 2015-06-28 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Trend in Higher Education There need be no hesitation in saying that in the present times there is a trend in higher education. Nor is it difficult to point out some of the more conspicuous elements which characterize the movement that is taking place before our eyes. The philosophy of it is something more difficult to formulate. Indeed, such formulation cannot be expected for a long time. Meanwhile it only remains to study the various features which, from time to time, present themselves, and to indicate their individual significance. If a unity of purpose exists in the several papers collected in this volume, it will be found in the effort made to point out this trend in some of the higher educational movements of the day. I have not undertaken to note all of these features, nor, indeed, any considerable number of them, for the field is illimitable. Nor have I proposed to classify these elements as a basis for generalization. Some such work as this may be undertaken later. I have tried only to make a record of observations here and there which may perhaps contribute something to a preview of the tendency of things in this great field of intellectual activity. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Trend in Higher Education written by William Rainey Harper and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 edition. Excerpt: ... THE OLD AND THE NEW IN EDUCATION1 Some of us live too exclusively in the past. Its ideas and its institutions are so sacred to us that to separate ourselves 'from them, to allow other ideas and institutions to be substituted for them, or to be placed side by side with them, seems almost sacrilege. In like manner, some of us live too exclusively in the present. Such of us do not deem it worth while to study the past, that which is at hand being more than sufficient to occupy our attention. To spend one's time groping about in the darkness of antiquity, when one might work with the fullest satisfaction in all the brightness of midday, or to occupy oneself in putting forth with reference to the future conjectures which at best must always be something hazy and indefinite, seems to be a waste of energy, an expenditure of time worse than foolish. And, then, there are some of us who live too exclusively in the future. Ignorant of the past, or forgetful of it, blind to the environments in which we have been placed, lacking sympathy with everything that surrounds us, we permit, nay 1 Read at the dedication of the Library of Colorado College, Colorado Springs, March 14, 1894. force, the mind to occupy itself with that which is far distant. In this field no limitations present themselves. Difficulties, we persuade ourselves, may be left for consideration when they actually arise. With no dead past to haunt us, with no anxious present to disturb, we revel in the future. But the world of today does not recognize true manhood in that person who thus commits himself, whether the committal be to the past, the present, or the future. The modern man, whether scholar or practical worker, whether statesman or business man or educator, must know the past, ..
Download or read book Higher Education in America Classic Reprint written by Charles Franklin Thwing and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-12-25 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Higher Education in America Continued Slow Enlargement of Course of Study in Middle Decades Value of Personality in the Teacher - Causes of the Educational Quickening: (l) The Civil War; (2) Commercial Prosperity; (3) About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Before Vassar Opened written by James Monroe Taylor and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-09-17 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Before Vassar Opened: A Contribution to the History of the Higher, Education of Women in America The movement for the higher education of wo men was so slow in enlisting the interest of the country that it is perhaps not surprising that no full history of it exists. For it was not only slow, but obscure, and came to large recogni tion only after the war, when a great gift con stituted a college that could attract the atten tion of a people absorbed in other and more pressing interests. Since that time our interest has been focused on progress and results, rather than on origins, and history has been subordinated to prophecy. The details of the earlier record, moreover, must be sought in a scattered literature of small interest to any but special students, in catalogues, in government reports, in old newspapers, and in occasional histories of individual institutions and in bio graphies of leaders of more or less distinction. But we cannot continue content with the pres ent or with our hopes, and must ask what early steps preceded what has seemed to most the sudden bursting of a new idea in the his tory of man. That Vassar's opening marked an epoch there can be no question, and the so cial and economic conditions that followed the Civil War responded immediately to the new opportunity; but the results could not have been so immediate and. So encouraging had it not been for the efforts of many pioneers in the North and in the South. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Trend in American Education Classic Reprint written by James Earl Russell and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-12 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Trend in American Education One of the most significant phenomena in the develop ment of our American democracy during the past thirty years has been the ever enlarging scope of our system of education. There has been a conscious attempt on the part of our people to realize the democratic ideal of equality of opportunity. The remarkable progress that has been made is due in no small measure to the leadership of a group of men and women who have thought and planned in advance of current practice. During the twenty-five years which are just past Dean Russell has been responsible for the development of an educational institution which has trained leaders for our American schools from the kindergarten to the university. He has been in the position of one who has thought and planned in terms of our rapidly developing school system. His leadership would not have been recognized had he sought merely to meet the current demand. The very great respect which members of the profession have come to have for his judgment, and their confidence in his fore sight are clearly evidenced by the growth and influence of the institution over which he presides. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Trend in Higher Education in America by William Rainey Harper written by William Rainey Harper and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Gospel of Work written by George Mann Richardson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-18 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Gospel of Work: Leland Stanford's Views on Higher Education Since all universities are hampered from a lack of funds, it is eminently desirable that all universities should co operate in this expansion of their curricula, and instead of following the old and narrow policy, dictated by petty jealousies, of establishing new departments because they have been established elsewhere, let each university look to develop where other universities have not developed, so that somewhere, here or there, the student will be able to find the thing he needs for his highest development. With ample opportunities for studying worthy subjects the student should be able to find in the university that thing which will best enable him to find his sphere Of great est usefulness in the world, that thing which awakens his enthusiasm, and it is not of great importance what the thing is; it is the awakening that is of supreme importance thatr is the first great step towards a sound education. One student will gain inspiration from the great epics of Homer, Dante, or Milton; another will be thrilled and incited to higher effort by reading the earth's history in the earth's crust a third will have his soul stirred and be able to detect nature's immutable laws by the study of the venation in the wings of insects. Any work which is thus capable of inspiring men to new and nobler effort can ill be spared from our educational system. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book History of Education Including Recent Trends in Education Classic Reprint written by Philip Raphael V. Curoe and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-26 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from History of Education (Including Recent Trends in Education) An acknowledgment is due to hundreds of former stu dents whose reactions to various methods of organizing the subject have evolved the plan here used. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Voice of the Scholar written by David Starr Jordan and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-06 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Voice of the Scholar: With Other Addresses on the Problems, of Higher Education The present volume contains a number of addresses on educational subjects delivered by the author on various occasions within the last five years. Most of them were first given to Stanford audiences. Of the others, "The University and the Common Man" was given at the University of Washington, that on the "Personality of the University" at the University of California, and that on "College Spirit" at the University of Missouri. That these discourses occasionally repeat each other or double on the same track is explained, if not excused, by the fact that the same author, in such cases, is dealing again with the same topic. The publishers express their indebtedness to the editors and publishers of the Atlantic Monthly, the Popular Science Monthly, the Forum, the Cosmopolitan Magazine, and the Independent, for the privilege of reprinting these addresses as published in the magazines in question. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book American Higher Education in the Twenty First Century written by Philip G. Altbach and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2005-02-25 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new edition explores current issues of central importance to the academy: leadership, accountability, access, finance, technology, academic freedom, the canon, governance, and race. Chapters also deal with key constituencies -- students and faculty -- in the context of a changing academic environment.
Download or read book Francis Wayland written by William G. Roelker and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-29 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Francis Wayland: A Neglected Pioneer of Higher Education Historical Review, vol. 42 (oct., pp. 46 - 67, at 49. 38 The Element: of Moral Science (boston, preface to first edition, pp. 3 - 4. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Higher Learning in America written by Thorstein Veblen and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-26 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Higher Learning in America: A Memorandum on the Conduct of Universities by Business Men But fortuitous circumstances again intervened, such as made it seem the part of insight and sobriety again to defer publication, until the colour of an irrelevant per sonal equation Should again have had time to fade into the background. With the further passage of time, it is hoped that no fortuitous shadow will now cloud the issue in any such degree as to detract at all sensibly from what ever value this account oi events and their causes may have. This allusion to incidents which have no material bear ing on the inquiry may tolerantly be allowed, as going to account for a sparing use of local information and, it is hoped, to extenuate a degree of reserve and reticence touching divers intimate details of executive policy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Higher Education Its Function in Preserving and Extending Our Civilization University Convocation Address Delivered at the Quarter Centennial Boston written by W. T. Harris and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-23 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Higher Education, Its Function in Preserving and Extending Our Civilization: University Convocation Address Delivered at the Quarter Centennial Boston University, May 31, 1898 He meets it in every recitation room and in the general con duct of the institution. He finds himself in association with a large number of students all occupied upon this work of learning the regulative principles not only of human conduct but also of the world of knowledge. The lawyer, after working years and years over his cases, comes by and by to have what is called a legal mind, so that he sees at a glance, almost as by intuition, what the law will be in a new case. So, in the four years of college under graduate life, the student gets an insight which enables him to decide immediately a phase of the problem of life. He forms a habit of mind which inquires constantly of each thing and event: How does this look in the light of the whole of human learning? What is the good form which the consensus of the scholars of the world has fixed for this? He learns at once to suspect what are called isms and universal pana ceas as one - sided statements. The wisdom of the race begins to form a conscious element of his life. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Care and Culture of Men written by David Starr Jordan and published by . This book was released on 2016-06-27 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Care and Culture of Men: A Series of Addresses on the Higher Education And you may say: These four years are among the best of my life. The good the college does must be great, if I should spend this time and money in securing it. What will the college do for me? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Making of an University written by W. M. Ramsay and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-09-17 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Making of an University: What We Have to Learn From Educational Ideals in America We have been trying a dangerous experiment, government by an uneducated democracy. A man who is not educated up to his capacity for receiving and profiting by education - which varies Widely in different people - may be called uneducated, for society loses all the service that his higher education would have qualified him to perform. We trust order, conduct, work, and national defence to the voluntary choice of the individual man, but we do not give him the knowledge needed to choose wisely; and, if he chooses badly, the common re ection is that he is ruined by getting too much education. It will do us no good merely to win the Great War in which Germany resolved to conquer us, unless we reform ourselves and re-model our education. That cannot be done by Act of Parlia ment: it can be done only by changing the heart of the people and training the teachers of the future. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."
Download or read book On the Principles of English University Education Classic Reprint written by Rev. William Whewell and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-08 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from On the Principles of English University Education About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Great Upheaval written by Arthur Levine and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2021-09-14 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How will America's colleges and universities adapt to remarkable technological, economic, and demographic change? The United States is in the midst of a profound transformation the likes of which hasn't been seen since the Industrial Revolution, when America's classical colleges adapted to meet the needs of an emerging industrial economy. Today, as the world shifts to an increasingly interconnected knowledge economy, the intersecting forces of technological innovation, globalization, and demographic change create vast new challenges, opportunities, and uncertainties. In this great upheaval, the nation's most enduring social institutions are at a crossroads. In The Great Upheaval, Arthur Levine and Scott Van Pelt examine higher and postsecondary education to see how it has changed to become what it is today—and how it might be refitted for an uncertain future. Taking a unique historical, cross-industry perspective, Levine and Van Pelt perform a 360-degree survey of American higher education. Combining historical, trend, and comparative analyses of other business sectors, they ask • how much will colleges and universities change, what will change, and how will these changes occur? • will institutions of higher learning be able to adapt to the challenges they face, or will they be disrupted by them? • will the industrial model of higher education be repaired or replaced? • why is higher education more important than ever? The book is neither an attempt to advocate for a particular future direction nor a warning about that future. Rather, it looks objectively at the contexts in which higher education has operated—and will continue to operate. It also seeks to identify likely developments that will aid those involved in steering higher education forward, as well as the many millions of Americans who have a stake in its future. Concluding with a detailed agenda for action, The Great Upheaval is aimed at policy makers, college administrators, faculty, trustees, and students, as well as general readers and people who work for nonprofits facing the same big changes.
