The Evolution and Evaluation of the History Curriculum of the Secondary School

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Montell, 1925 - 127 strani

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Stran 16 - Halicarnassus, in order that the actions of men may not be effaced by time, nor the great and wondrous deeds displayed both by Greeks and barbarians deprived of renown : and amongst the rest, for what cause they waged war upon each other.
Stran 76 - Description of the Globe in respect of all general matters. Rise, extent, and fall of ancient empires ; chronology as low as the fall of the Roman Empire ; present state of the world ; origin of the present States and Kingdoms — their extent, power, commerce, religion, and customs; modern chronology.
Stran 54 - Cassar, and the dead pause which followed, as if the acts had just been committed in his very presence. No expression of his reverence for a high standard of Christian excellence could have been more striking than the almost involuntary expressions [of admiration which broke from him whenever mention...
Stran 20 - For as a living creature is rendered wholly useless if deprived of its eyes, so if you take truth from History, what is left but an idle unprofitable tale?
Stran 105 - It means equally that past events cannot be separated from the living present and retain meaning. The true starting point of history is always some present situation with its problems.
Stran 54 - Caesar, and the dead pause which followed, as if the acts had jnst been committed in his very presence. No expression of his reverence for a high standard of Christian excellence could have been more striking than the almost involuntary expressions of admiration which broke from him whenever mention was made of St. Louis of France.
Stran 58 - an impartial history cannot be published during the lives of the principal persons concerned in the transactions related, without being exposed to the charge of undue flattery or censure ; and unless history is impartial, it misleads the student, and frustrates its proper object.
Stran 111 - Indeed, the statement is often made that the development of volition is neither more nor less than a process of reducing our impulses to order, and that a mature character is simply one in which the impulses are thus subordinated to some systematized principles.
Stran 109 - ... mobility of the laboring population, and the fact that 95 per cent of the labor employed in the construction of such a complicated machine as the automobile, are facts that ' . cry aloud against any trade training that is not an integral part of a more general plan of industrial education. They speak for the necessity of an education whose chief purpose is to develop initiative and personal resources of intelligence.
Stran 113 - The study of Modern History is, next to Theology itself, and only next in so far as Theology rests on a divine revelation, the most thoroughly religious training that the mind can receive.

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