Public Elementary School Curricula: A Comparative Study of Representative Cities of the United States, England, Germany and France (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Public Elementary School Curricula: A Comparative Study of Representative Cities of the United States, England, Germany and FranceThis study attempts to give an exact description of the subject matter and its arrangement in the curricula of public elementary schools of certain representative cities in the United States, England, Germany and France. Adherence to this definite problem led chiefly to a comparative study of the actual and relative time assigned to subjects in schools and in grades.Hearty acknowledgment of indebtedness to the writings, lectures and personal suggestions of Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, Dr. John Dewey, Dr. Charles McMurry, Dr. E. T. Thorndike, Dr. Paul Monroe, Dr. J. A. McVannel, and Dr. F. M. McMurry is hereby made. The influence of the thought of these gentlemen will be readily recognized in the following pages. Especially serviceable have been the suggestions of Dr. Frank M. McMurry, under whose kindly guidance the research was pursued for two years. Without his encouragement it is probable that the arduous task of collecting and organizing the material would have been abandoned before it reached its present form.Space is not allowed for the acknowledgment of the kindness of many persons who lent valuable assistance in collecting data for this study. It would be an act of unpardonable ingratitude, however, not to record the thanks due Miss Elizabeth Baldwin, Librarian of Teachers College, whose wide experience in collecting such material made her peculiarly able to give that aid which she so ungrudgingly rendered while the source material for this study was being gathered.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.