Entrée principale:

Knight, Edgar Wallace, 1886-1953.

Titre et auteur:

Twenty centuries of education, by Edgar W. Knight ...

Publication:

Boston, New York Ginn and Company [©1940]

Description:

xviii, 622 pages frontispiece, illustrations (including portraits, facsimiles) diagrams 24 cm

Notes:
"Suggested readings" at end of each chapter. "A note on readings": pages xiv-xviii.
Modern education built on many foundations -- The changing aims of education -- Some types of pre-Christian education -- Education among the Greeks -- Education among the Romans -- Christianity a new force in the world -- Some famous scholastics and their influence on education -- The Renaissance brings changes in educational aims -- The educational aims (and results) of the Reformation -- The rise of scientific inquiry -- The revolutionary effect of the printing press -- Beginnings of public education in the United States -- The slow development of American democratic principles in education -- The important place of university education in the United States -- Rapid changes in university education -- How certain theorists have influenced education -- Growth of the public-school idea -- The universities and postgraduate education -- Changing conditions bring new educational problems -- Some national school systems -- The problem of meeting democratic needs.
Library copy: in ms. " Emily D. McEwen, 120 Fremont Street, Plymouth, Mass. 188 Cushing Street, Pembroke College, Providence, R.I."

Sujet:

Education History.
Education Aims and objectives.
Éducation Histoire.
Éducation Finalités.
Education
Geschichte
Pädagogik
Pedagogik historia.

Classification/genre:

History

Vedettes secondaires:

Provenance. McEwen, Emily D. Autograph.
Autographs. McEwen, Emily D.

Exemplaires:

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 179004
Cote: ID LA13.K5; ID:98-B1484
Statut: Disponible