Biology in Secondary Schools and the Training of Biology Teachers

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Teachers College, Columbia University, 1926 - Biology - 79 pages

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Page 1 - Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink ? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed ? for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things. But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and His righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
Page 1 - Wherefore if God so clothe the grass of the field .... shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith...
Page 18 - That man, I think, has had a liberal education who has been so trained in youth that his body is the ready servant of his will, and does with ease and pleasure all the work that as a mechanism it is capable of; whose intellect is a clear, cold logic engine with all its parts of equal strength and in smooth working order; ready like a steam engine to be turned to any kind of work, and spin the gossamers as well as forge the anchors of the mind...
Page 6 - It is the exhibition of the divine thought, as carried out in one department of that grand whole which we call Nature ; and considered as such, it teaches us most important lessons. 3. Man, in virtue of his twofold constitution, the spiritual and the material, is qualified to comprehend Nature. Being made in the spiritual image of God, he is competent to rise to the conception of His plan and purpose in the works of Creation.
Page 1 - OUR LORD'S direct object in this lesson of the Lilies was to convince the people of God's care for them.
Page 48 - The curriculum of the college is based upon the assumption that teachers should have first of all, and fundamental to all other preparation, a broad and liberal education; second, that they should be masters of...
Page 29 - Education has carried on its work by means of discussions, correspondence and formulations of preliminary reports for over seven years. The discussion of preliminary reports by groups, committees, and at meetings of science teachers have revealed progressive work already under way and have led to the trial of preliminary recommendations. Some of the improvements that the committee sought to effect have already been adopted by many of the best schools. The full report herein presented formulated through...
Page 45 - ... highschool work for admission, or from an institution having equivalent requirements for admission and giving equivalent academic scholarship. A year of graduate work divided between academic and professional subjects is desirable.
Page 1 - Now, this clothing of the earth with plants and flowers — at once so beautiful and so useful, so essential to all animal life — is one of the very ways in which He takes care of his creatures. And when Christ himself directs us to consider with attention the plants around us, — to notice how they grow, — how varied, how numerous, and how elegant they are, and with what exquisite skill they are fashioned and adorned, — we shall surely find it profitable and pleasant to learn the lessons...
Page 3 - The teachers of morphological biology in the schools brought with them from the colleges certain ideas of method. Possibly the lecture system never took strong hold in the schools, but the laboratory method of the college, with much of its paraphernalia, did. The consequence of this was that thousands of young untrained pupils were required to cut, section, examine, and draw the parts of the dead bodies of unknown and unheard-of animals and plants, and later to reproduce in examinations what they...

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