The Ohio Educational Monthly (Volume 28) (Paperback)

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1879. Excerpt: ... suggests in all preparatory schools of the highest grade; inasmuch as quality and not quantity is made the criterion of fitness to enter. The actual number of books or pages read in any author is no longer accepted as a test, but rather the ability to read at sight ordinary passages from any given author, due allowance being made for the occurrence of rare or technical words. This is the true principle, and the one invariably observed in primary instruction. The number of pages a child has read is not the criterion of his progress, but the facility with which he can give expression to thought freshly presented to him in words. If the new system, however, works no speedy reform in the character of college entrance examinations, pray let the subject be agitated in every other legitimate way. TO WHAT EXTENT CAN INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY BE TAUGHT IN OUR PUBLIC SCHOOLS? This paper was read by Prof. L. S. Thompson, now of Purdue University, formerly of Ohio, at the last meeting of the Indiana State Teachers' Association, at Fort Wayne. Technology is defined to be the systematic knowledge of the theory and practice of the industrial arts. Its chief divisions are two: Chemical technology and mechanical technology. Chemical technology includes the manufacture of acids, the compounds of soda and potash; the making of soap, candles, glass, pottery, and porcelain; the production of illuminating gas, and certain products obtained from petroleum; the distillation of spirits and the fermentation of wine and beer. Mechanical technology includes textile manufactures and the mechanic arts in general. It will not be necessary to enter into any argument to show that we can teach the sciences that underlie these two classes of manufacturing processes. We can teach chemistry, the...

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1879. Excerpt: ... suggests in all preparatory schools of the highest grade; inasmuch as quality and not quantity is made the criterion of fitness to enter. The actual number of books or pages read in any author is no longer accepted as a test, but rather the ability to read at sight ordinary passages from any given author, due allowance being made for the occurrence of rare or technical words. This is the true principle, and the one invariably observed in primary instruction. The number of pages a child has read is not the criterion of his progress, but the facility with which he can give expression to thought freshly presented to him in words. If the new system, however, works no speedy reform in the character of college entrance examinations, pray let the subject be agitated in every other legitimate way. TO WHAT EXTENT CAN INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY BE TAUGHT IN OUR PUBLIC SCHOOLS? This paper was read by Prof. L. S. Thompson, now of Purdue University, formerly of Ohio, at the last meeting of the Indiana State Teachers' Association, at Fort Wayne. Technology is defined to be the systematic knowledge of the theory and practice of the industrial arts. Its chief divisions are two: Chemical technology and mechanical technology. Chemical technology includes the manufacture of acids, the compounds of soda and potash; the making of soap, candles, glass, pottery, and porcelain; the production of illuminating gas, and certain products obtained from petroleum; the distillation of spirits and the fermentation of wine and beer. Mechanical technology includes textile manufactures and the mechanic arts in general. It will not be necessary to enter into any argument to show that we can teach the sciences that underlie these two classes of manufacturing processes. We can teach chemistry, the...

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Release date

2012

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2012

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246 x 189 x 11mm (L x W x T)

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Paperback - Trade

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210

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978-1-151-19431-2

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9781151194312

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1-151-19431-X



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