Download Proceedings Volume 44, PT. 1
Download Proceedings Volume 44, PT. 1
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Author: United States Naval Institute
Number of Pages: 666 pages
Published Date: 12 Oct 2012
Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
Publication Country: Miami Fl, United States
Language: English, French
Format: Pdf
ISBN: 9781234930028
File size: 15 Mb
Download Link: Proceedings Volume 44, PT. 1
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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. 1918 edition. Excerpt: ...and finish of the human product, not as its substance. Our universities, colleges and other private institutions of learning may find justification in such aims, but public education, having a deeper and more vital purpose to serve, can take no doubtful chances with the foundation and walls of the social edifice. Superstructure and ornament must wait upon safety and durability. The praiseworthy results of the system are loudly acclaimed and well known. They are found in college entrance examinations and in percentages of scholarship. But outside of this narrow domain, where the great masses of our people must get their daily labor, even after their compulsory education, the picture is not so bright. Alienists tell us that the percentage of insanity is increasing. Criminologists tell us that our nation stands among the worst in its record of murders and other serious crimes. Social welfare investigators testify to the increase of vice and immorality. Medical men testify to the increasing prevalence of pernicious diseases. The vast majority of criminal offences by hold-up men, gunmen, gangsters and thieves are by youths and young men from 16 to 26 years of age, all of whom have been subject to our educational methods, and not a few are graduates of our high schools. When our country calls upon its manhood for defence and in some districts over 50 per cent of its young men are rejected for physical reasons, something is wrong. Failing in our schools to establish the moral qualities as supreme, discipline itself has become weakened, and we are not only accustomed to sporadic rebellion in classrooms, where the sweet influence of woman is relied upon to persuade young bullies to do right, but we witness the wholesale " strikes " on...
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Proceedings Volume 44, PT. 1. United States Naval Institute
Author: United States Naval Institute
Number of Pages: 666 pages
Published Date: 12 Oct 2012
Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
Publication Country: Miami Fl, United States
Language: English, French
Format: Pdf
ISBN: 9781234930028
File size: 15 Mb
Download Link: Proceedings Volume 44, PT. 1
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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. 1918 edition. Excerpt: ...and finish of the human product, not as its substance. Our universities, colleges and other private institutions of learning may find justification in such aims, but public education, having a deeper and more vital purpose to serve, can take no doubtful chances with the foundation and walls of the social edifice. Superstructure and ornament must wait upon safety and durability. The praiseworthy results of the system are loudly acclaimed and well known. They are found in college entrance examinations and in percentages of scholarship. But outside of this narrow domain, where the great masses of our people must get their daily labor, even after their compulsory education, the picture is not so bright. Alienists tell us that the percentage of insanity is increasing. Criminologists tell us that our nation stands among the worst in its record of murders and other serious crimes. Social welfare investigators testify to the increase of vice and immorality. Medical men testify to the increasing prevalence of pernicious diseases. The vast majority of criminal offences by hold-up men, gunmen, gangsters and thieves are by youths and young men from 16 to 26 years of age, all of whom have been subject to our educational methods, and not a few are graduates of our high schools. When our country calls upon its manhood for defence and in some districts over 50 per cent of its young men are rejected for physical reasons, something is wrong. Failing in our schools to establish the moral qualities as supreme, discipline itself has become weakened, and we are not only accustomed to sporadic rebellion in classrooms, where the sweet influence of woman is relied upon to persuade young bullies to do right, but we witness the wholesale " strikes " on...
Read online Proceedings Volume 44, PT. 1 Buy and read online Proceedings Volume 44, PT. 1 Download Proceedings Volume 44, PT. 1 for pc, mac, kindle, readers Download to iPad/iPhone/iOS, B&N nook Proceedings Volume 44, PT. 1 ebook, pdf, djvu, epub, mobi, fb2, zip, rar, torrent