Word: childing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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John Dewey is regarded as the father of Progressive Education, but actually he was neither its first philosopher nor its first schoolmaster. First great modern philosopher was Rousseau, who, in Emile (1762), advocated a child-centred school. First Progressive-school system in the U. S. was started in 1875 by the late Colonel Francis Wayland Parker in Quincy, Mass. Last week in Manhattan was celebrated the Goth anniversary of the second, the Ethical Culture School, founded in 1878 by Felix Adler...
...laboratory school at University of Chicago (1896-1904), coordinated earlier ideas and experiments, formulated and carried out a complete philosophy of education. New devices have been developed since Dewey, but still the core of Progressive Education are his central ideas: that children should be treated as individuals, a child's interests and needs should shape the curriculum, children should learn by doing (i.e., taking trips, building, painting), should practice democracy, should learn to solve the same kind of problems they will meet after school...
Infant Jesus meek and mild Look on me a little child Pity mine and pity me And suffer me to come to thee...
...procaine, into the canal of the spinal cord is objectionable because such injections act on the cord and brain, interfere with the heart. Anesthetics such as ether and nitrous oxide (laughing gas) are harmful because they cause a deficiency of oxygen in the blood streams of mother and child...
...solution bathed the nerve trunks of organs involved in childbirth and effectively killed pain. The efficiency of motor nerves which aid in propelling a child out of the birth canal was not impaired. Chief merit of the new drugs is that each has a different length of action, and doctors predicting the length of labor can inject a drug with sufficiently lasting effects...