Educational Hist Of Ohio

Author : James Jesse Burns
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330215876
Total Pages : 776 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (158 download)

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Download or read book Educational History of Ohio written by James Jesse Burns and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-26 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Educational History of Ohio: A History of Its Progress Since the Formation of the State What this book contains, so far as the making of it was his, and what the writer's purpose was, had been written out with some degree of fulness when the reflection came that there would be a table of contents; and close upon that struggled the hope that the answer to the second question will appear to the reader who honors the book as a book loves to he honored by reading it. The truth needs no affirmation that the work of educating a people is, by divine and human appointment, allotted to a series of agencies. One of the Humboldts said that whatever goes to make a man what he is, or to keep him from being what he is not, is part of his education. Then, the story of whatever has lent its aid to make a State what it is, or to prevent its being what it is not, is part of its educational history. For a problem easy to ask but not the prey of the arithmetician's pencil, determine what fraction of the result called education comes from home instruction, front the church and the Sunday-school; from the lecture platform, the political "stump," and the theater; from the playground and the workshop; from the club and the loafers' corner; from the public reading room and the shady end of the news counter; from the family newspaper in that holiest of clubs, around the fireside and the evening lamp; from the soiled volume in the old school library which unlocked the treasures of knowledge and culture for some humble pupil, so that, though his school days were over, his education, his spiritual building, continued. Out of a longer list the writer chose the topics presented in the table, as nearest his purpose. It might be possible, for the day of miracles is not past, to write an educational history by harnessing all these subjects abreast; but the attempt would argue a degree of temerity higher than that of Phaethon. though it could not, like his, set things afire. The only way, and perhaps the best way. was to drive tandem. If occasionally the lines have crossed, will the reader not be pleased to skip the duplication, or kindly believe there is a purpose in it? Sometimes the relation lingered into tediousness. The material was a multitude of items each in itself small and even insignificant to an eye not armed with the lens of interest, but in the mass they picture scenes and conditions passed, or passing, out of sight. 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.