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Download full textDawson, Edgar – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1922
Education is the process of handing down to the rising generation the wisdom and experience of the generations that have gone before. Now, as mankind is hesitatingly turning into new paths here and there it is all the more necessary that the most careful attention be given to the points of departure and the reason for departing from the old ones.…
Descriptors: Teacher Certification, Teaching Methods, Secondary Schools, Social Studies
Boie, Mildred Louise, Comp. – Office of Education, Federal Security Agency, 1948
Democracy is more than a creed or a doctrine. It must be a continuing force in the daily thinking, working, and living of all our citizens. American schools and colleges can strengthen democracy by practicing it--by showing concretely the basic advantages it offers to human beings. It is in the homes and in the schools, in home towns and local…
Descriptors: Democracy, Democratic Values, Newspapers, Radio
Nelson, Murry R., Ed. – 1994
This document contains a reprint of the 1916 "The Social Studies in Secondary Education: A Six-Year Program Adapted Both to the 6-3-3 and the 8-4 Plans of Organization and Report of the Committee on Social Studies of the Commission on the Reorganization of Secondary Education of the National Education Association" widely believed to be the most…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Citizenship Education, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Guides
Peer reviewedStassen, Manfred; Kraemer, Dagmar – Social Education, 1993
Introduces part 1 of a special section on teaching about Germany and the European Community. Argues that the end of the Cold War and the movement toward European economic union brought new political realities that will affect the United States. Contends that the data about Germany and Europe presented is timely and more appropriate for classroom…
Descriptors: Area Studies, Citizenship Education, Cultural Exchange, Cultural Influences
Proffitt, Maris M. – Office of Education, United States Department of the Interior, 1938
Developments in adult education during the past few years have attracted general public interest. Reports, based upon scientific studies, that the ability to learn efficiently continues until late in life, were given widespread dissemination. The significance of this fact for education was readily comprehended not only by schoolmen but by the lay…
Descriptors: Extension Education, Correctional Education, Adult Vocational Education, Correctional Institutions
Fox, Florence C. – Office of Education, United States Department of the Interior, 1932
The Department of Commerce in its highway safety conference made this pronouncement: "The problem of safety is closely linked with health, thrift, and many other elements which taken together make up the great problem of developing a finer citizenship. Educational leaders of the country are now endeavoring to weld together the essential elements…
Descriptors: Educational History, Curriculum Development, Safety Education, Traffic Safety
