
The Children: Some Educational Problems
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About This Book
Professor Alexander Darroch (1862-1924) was the British author who wrote The Children: Some Educational Problems (1907) and Education and the New Utilitarianism and Other Educational Addresses (1914). "The problems as to the end or ends at which our educational agencies should aim in the training and instruction of the children of the nation, and of the right methods of attaining these ends once they have been definitely and clearly recognised, are at the present day receiving greater and greater attention not only from professed educationalists, but also from statesmen and the public generall...
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- THE CHILDREN
- The Social Problems Series
- THE CHILDREN
- SOME EDUCATIONAL PROBLEMS
- ALEXANDER DARROCH, M.A.
- PROFESSOR OF EDUCATION IN THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH
- LONDON: T. C. & E. C. JACK 16 HENRIETTA STREET, W.C. AND EDINBURGH 1907
- CONTENTS
- THE CHILDREN
- CHAPTER I
- INTRODUCTION—THE PRESENT UNREST IN EDUCATION
- FOOTNOTES:
- CHAPTER II
- THE MEANING AND PROCESS OF EDUCATION
- FOOTNOTES:
- CHAPTER III
- THE END OF EDUCATION
- FOOTNOTES:
- CHAPTER IV
- THE RELATION OF THE STATE TO EDUCATION—THE PROVISION OF EDUCATION
- FOOTNOTES:
- CHAPTER V
- THE RELATION OF THE STATE TO EDUCATION—THE COST OF EDUCATION
- FOOTNOTES:
- CHAPTER VI
- THE RELATION OF THE STATE TO EDUCATION—MEDICAL EXAMINATION AND INSPECTION OF SCHOOL CHILDREN
- Appendix
- FOOTNOTES:
- CHAPTER VII
- THE RELATION OF THE STATE TO EDUCATION—THE FEEDING OF SCHOOL CHILDREN
- Appendix
- FOOTNOTES:
- CHAPTER VIII
- THE ORGANISATION OF THE MEANS OF EDUCATION
- FOOTNOTE:
- CHAPTER IX
- THE AIM OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION
- FOOTNOTES:
- CHAPTER X
- THE AIM OF THE INFANT SCHOOL
- FOOTNOTES:
- CHAPTER XI
- THE AIM OF THE PRIMARY SCHOOL
- FOOTNOTES:
- CHAPTER XII
- THE AIM OF THE SECONDARY SCHOOL
- CHAPTER XIII
- THE AIM OF THE UNIVERSITY
- FOOTNOTE:
- CHAPTER XIV
- CONCLUSION—THE PRESENT PROBLEMS IN EDUCATION
- Printed by Morrison & Gibb Limited, Edinburgh
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