Word: america
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...America gave her plenty of time and in the end she did what was demanded...
...influenced by it. He determined to devote his life to educating the people and we are still working with the ideas and objects which he evolved three hundred years ago. That he is not forgotten is evident from the extensive preparations which have been made throughout Europe and America to celebrate his birthday. He has won a universal significance and his influence has been world-wide...
...that he was invited to become the president of Harvard University, but offers of the Swedish minister proved more attractive. If he had accepted the position here, it is probable that America and not Europe would lead in thoroughness of education. The principles which Comenius represented are embodied in his various writings, the most important of which are the "Great Didactic," the "Gate of Languages" and the "World Illustrated." The object of the first of these was, as expressed in the subtitle, "to teach everybody everything" and "to search out a rule in accordance with which the teachers teach less...
...Comenius's text-books, the Janua linguarum or "Gate of Languages" was the most popular and it was used in Germany for over 200 years. Copies and translations were also brought to America and it was probably used in Boston Latin School and possibly in Harvard itself. There are four copies in the Library bearing the names of Harvard...
...attempt to answer the question - Are the aims of university extension practicable? On this point, he says: "We cannot with certainity say that they are not, but it is here that doubts arise, - doubts of three sorts: those which suspect a fundamental difference in the two countries [England and America] which try the experiment; those which are incredulous about the permanent response which our people will make to the education offered; and those which question the possibility of securing a stable body of extension teachers." In regard to the first ground for doubt Professor Palmer says that the conditions...