National Conference on Secondary Education and Its Problems; Held at Northwestern University, October 30 and 31, 1903. Stenographic Report of the Proceedings (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY. E vanston- Chicago. PRESIDENT'S OFFICE. My Dear Sir: A National Conference on Secondary Education and its Problems has been called by Northwestern University to meet in Evans- ton-Chicago on Friday and Saturday, October 3Oth and 3ist, 1903, at the same time as the celebration of the Fisk anniversary. You are cordially invited to attend. An interesting program is being prepared and men of prominence in secondary and higher education will discuss among other problems the topics indicated below. You will observe that the Conference is to concern itself primarily, not with pedagogical problems in the narrower sense?such as proper methods of teaching individual branches, or the arrangement of subjects in the curriculum?but rather with those broader questions of general educational policy in which other intelligent citizens, as well as the teacher, must take an abiding interest because they go to the very root of our social and educational life. We shall be glad to have suggestions as to other questions which in your judgment it would be well to consider at this Conference. An early reply as to whether you can probably attend will be greatly appreciated. Faithfully yours, Edmund J. James. The following is the list of topics suggested: I. In view of the remarkable and ever-increasing growth of the public high school what is the place of the private high school or endowed academy in our system of education? II. Is it desirable that the public high school should assume any responsibility for the moral and religious training of its pupils ? and if so, what is possible and advisable in this matter ? III. Should the public high school be looked upon primarily as a school to prepare young men and women for the college anduniversit...