 | Charles Francis Adams - 1879 - 62 pages
...some of our larger cities, that vast numbers of children should be taught as trains on railroads are run, on a time-table principle, — that they are...line on a chart before him, — this whole theory was emphatically dismissed. In place of it the tentative principle was adopted. Experiments were to be... | |
 | Charles Francis Adams - 1881 - 90 pages
...some of our larger cities, that vast numbers of children should be taught as trains on railroads are run, on a time-table principle, — that they are...line on a chart before him, — this whole theory was empha'./. ally dismissed. In place of it the tentative principle was adopted. Experiments were to be... | |
 | 1881 - 662 pages
...grammar-school teacher run to seed, or some retired clergyman or local politician out of a job." The "general superintendent sits in his central office...pricks off each step in the advance of the whole line [of what?] on a chart before him." There was but one competent superintendent, and Quincy had secured... | |
 | Esmond Vedder De Graff, Margaret Keiver Smith - 1883 - 324 pages
...some of our larger cities, that vast numbers of children should be taught as trains on railroads are run, on a time-table principle, — that they are...point to-morrow, and at their terminus at such a date, — this whole theory was emphatically dismissed. Experiments were to be cautiously tried, and results... | |
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The programme found no place anywhere in it ; on the contrary, the last new theory, so curiously amplified in some of our larger cities, that vast numbers of children should be taught as trains on railroads are run, on a time-table principle, — that... 