Self-Surveys by Teacher-Training Schools, 1917 (Classic Reprint) PDF Download

Author: William Harvey Allen
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ISBN: 9781330684092
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 278

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Excerpt from Self-Surveys by Teacher-Training Schools, 1917 No other enterprise in the United States is as important to its future welfare as its teacher training. We may reorganize our systems, revolutionize our courses of study, introduce innovations of scheme and scope, increase salaries, insure pensions, and mass endowments, but none nor all of these can appreciably raise our standard of education unless we improve our teacher training. Wherever the Stars and Stripes fly there is immediate and urgent need for helps in training teachers prior to and during their service as teachers. The first and longest step forward is for each teacher-training school to analyze its present program, methods, and needs. No commercial enterprise would be permitted to go on for a very long period without an exhibit of assets and liabilities and profits and losses, and a showing of present condition. To record the transactions and progress of such business, books of account are kept, and exhibits, drawn from the facts as set down in these books, are made to show the owners the condition of the business and the results of their venture. It is comparatively easy to make such showings in financial matters, for records are kept in recognized units of material values, and trial balances and profit-and-loss statements are set down in terms which depend merely upon a correct count of these recognized units. Well-devised and accepted systems of showing business facts have been established and recognized experts in commercial accounting are at hand to record transactions and to exhibit results in balance sheets and statements which are easily read and commonly understood. Until very recently, however, our most important public enterprise - the education of the youth of the land - was allowed to proceed, and, in many quarters, still proceeds, without any recognized or understood plan of accounting, so far as its most vital features are concerned. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.