Bulletin, العدد 16 |
طبعات أخرى - عرض جميع المقتطفات
عبارات ومصطلحات مألوفة
Administrator adult civic education adult education advisory committee Alden G American announcements Assistant Association attendance Author Board of Education California citizens College Colorado Springs Columbia community-wide Constitution Cooperation December Democracy democratic demonstration centers Department Director Engagement Europe experience Fascism February Field forum district FORUM FACULTY forum leaders forum meetings forum program forum schedules forum staff Government groups Industrial interest International Relations IRWIN EDMAN J. W. Studebaker January January 30 Labor League of Nations lecturer Little Rock ment Minnesota Monongalia County neighborhood forums November 30 October 15 Office of Education Orange County Oregon organized Parent-Teacher Association Professor Political Science public affairs public discussion public education Public Forum Project Schenectady school board September September 14 social and economic Social Science spring period Studebaker subjects Superintendent of Schools Teachers Tennessee tion topics traveled extensively Unions United University versity Washington West Virginia workers World youth
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الصفحة 2 - Promote, then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened.
الصفحة 2 - I have indeed two great measures at heart, without which no republic can maintain itself in strength, 1. That of general education, to enable every man to judge for himself what will secure or endanger his freedom.
الصفحة 2 - The whole purpose of democracy is that we may hold counsel with one another, so as not to depend upon the understanding of one man, but to depend upon the counsel of all.
الصفحة 2 - Although education is primarily a responsibility of the states and local communities, and rightly so, yet the nation as a whole is vitally concerned in its development everywhere to the highest standards and to complete universality.
الصفحة 2 - I view education as the most important subject which we, as a people, can be engaged in.
الصفحة 2 - We need to have meeting places for the discussion of public questions, in the cities, hamlets, and on the farms throughout the length and breadth of the land.
الصفحة 2 - The United States still stakes its faith on the democratic way of life. We believe in the representative form of government. We dare not close our eyes, however, to the fact that the only way in which that representative form or government can persist is thru an educated electorate.
الصفحة 17 - The cooperation of all libraries in Morgantown, including the West Virginia University library, was obtained in developing the reading aspect of the forums. The traveling library of Monongalia County assisted in bringing the books to forum headquarters and getting them to the meetings. "We found that the forums have really influenced people to read. This is demonstrated by the fact that at the close of the spring period in June there was great demand for a continuation of the library service and...
الصفحة 17 - ... liable to recent draft laws). Fifty-eight per cent of these illiterates are white persons; 28 per cent are native-born whites, and 30 per cent are foreign-born whites; 40 per cent of the rest are Negroes. To educate all its people without exception is both the duty and the right of democracy. If these people have been deprived of educational opportunities in their youth, it is the duty of the Nation to extend this blessing to them now in their...
الصفحة 5 - Mrs. Mary T. Bannerman, Legislative Chairman, National Congress of Parents and Teachers; Rev. George Johnson, National Catholic Welfare Conference ; James J.