Adjustment Of School Organization To Various Population Groups

Author : Robert Alexander Fyfe McDonald
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781528478991
Total Pages : 156 pages
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Download or read book Adjustment of School Organization to Various Population Groups (Classic Reprint) written by Robert Alexander Fyfe McDonald and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-09-17 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Adjustment of School Organization to Various Population Groups Thus at the very beginning Of American life, stress was laid upon the conception of schools open to all on terms Oppressive to none. The religious theories of Puritanism were largely responsible for initiating this doctrine of educational Opportunity and need into American thought;l it remained for the political theories of the Revolutionary and post-revolutionary periods to vitalize and extend the conception of popular education. The expressions of the great national leaders of this era will indicate the views widely held in American society at the begin ning of the nineteenth century. George Washington always cherished a deep interest in the matter of education. He says: Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness. In one in which the meas ures of government receive their impressions so immediately from the sense Of the community as in ours, it is proportionally essential. Promote, then, as an Object Of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion Of knowledge. In propor tion as the structure of the government gives force to public Opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened. (c: 7 - 8) John Adams, the second president, speaking Of American schools, said: All the children of the inhabitants, the rich as well as the poor, have a right to go to these public schools. He again affirmed his belief when he said that The whole people must take upon themselves the education of the whole people and must be willing to bear the expense of it. There should not be a district of one mile square without a school in it, not founded by a charitable individual, but maintained at the expense of the people themselves. (c: 13) 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.