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Search - Fifty Years Of American Education - A Sketch Of the Progress Of Education In the United States From 1867 to 1917

Fifty Years Of American Education A Sketch Of the Progress Of Education In the United States From 1867 to 1917
Author: Ernest Carroll Moore

FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN EDUCATION xf SKETCH OF THE PROGRESS OF EDUCATION 1 3 THE UNITED STJTES FROM x86 TO 1917 BY ERNEST CARROLL MOORE GINN AND COMPANY BOSTON NEW YORK CHICAGO LONDON ATLANTA DALLAS COLUMBUS SAN FRANCISCO i 86719 i 7 THE year 1867 Edwin Ginn took desk room in a modest Boston office and so began the business which has for many ye... more »ars been conducted under the firm name of Ginn and Company. When an individual or an organisation reaches the half-century mark it seems fitting to signalize in some appropriate way that achievement. Casting about for a suitable anniversary memento of our otvn fifty years , we TV ere struck by the remarkable growth and develop ment of the school system of the United States during this period. It finally seemed to us that we could do no better than invite Dr. Ernest C. Moore to sum up the educational progress - of the United States since 1867. e are sure that Dr. Moores admirable sketch of the history of education in this country for the period beginning in 1867 and ending in rgif will be a welcome and useful contribution to our educational literature and e we bring it before the public e with gratitude that our own busi ness development has been contemporaneous with this marvelous change in our American schools. AND COMPANY CONTENTS JAGE CHAPTER I 3 WE LIVE IN A PERIOD OF CHANGE CHAPTER II ii EDUCATION AT THE END OF THE CIVIL WAR CHAPTER III 43 SOME CHANGES SINCE THE CIVIL WAR BIBLIOGRAPHY 95 FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN EDUCATION CHAPTER I lOTHING seems more certain than We live that this is a dynamic universe, in a which all things change, for activity f is their law. Yet the changes which everywhere go on take place so imperceptibly that it is only when their effects are massed that we begin to note their existence. Something very like a tor rent of change has been pushing life forward in the United States since the Civil War, and we who are caught up in its onrushing have been carried along too swiftly to be aware of the dis tance we have traveled or the speed at which we are moving. Francis Galton declared that mans work in clearing the forests of North America would be visible to an observer as far off as the moon, 3 yet we who dwell in the land that that clearing made habitable tend to think of its physical features as always having been the same as they now are. That same statifying tendency benumbs our perception 3 Fifty throughout. I heard President Eliot say in a Tears of re cent address that the last fifty years has been mencan t j ie mos t prodigious period of change through which the world has ever passed 3 Most of us do not think of it in that way. Let us note a few of the changes which came on the heels of the Civil War. The first transatlantic cable was laid in 1866. The first transcontinental railway was operated in 1869. Bells first telephone bears the date 1875, and telephone exchanges were instituted in 1879. The first cable car line was started in San Fran cisco in 1 8 7 3 . Electric lighting dates from 1876 and electric traction from 1880. The Mer genthaler linotype was completed in 1884. In 1885 Daimler invented the internal combus tion motor, and in 1894 the first trial run of automobiles was organized by a French news paper. In 1896 Marconi produced an. opera tive electric-wave telegraph. Langley tested his steam-driven flying machine in 1893, anc in 1903 the Wright brothers made their first flight in a motor-driven aeroplane. In 1877 Holland constructed his first submarine. The first dreadnought made its trial run in 1906. We live New guns, oflong range, accuracy, and rapidity a of fire, and high explosives contributed an in- w i - i Change strument of slaughter which the combined power of mankind is hardly able to keep from destroying the human race. If tools are but the elongation of the human hand, mans arm has been mightily lengthened during the last half century. But progress in mechanical inventions is but one phase of the development of science...

ISBN-13: 9781406705317
ISBN-10: 1406705314
Publication Date: 3/15/2007
Pages: 104
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Publisher: Saveth Press
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