Popular education in England started as a social welfare as well as an educational service. Robert Raikes, who opened the first Sunday School in 1780, and the two bodies of religious and philanthropic people who provided all the day schools until 1870, were inspired to act by two motives--one was shame at the existence in a great country like England of children and many adults who could not read or write, and the other was concern at the conditions which the industrial revolution had provided for the swarms of children who inhabited the new towns.
This approach to popular education was not the same in other countries. In Prussia, Switzerland, France and in the U. S. A. , the duty to see that future citizens were educated was recognized as that of the State, and public money was allotted to it much earlier than in England. Although the churches in some of these countries were associated with the State system--since religion was recognized to have an important share in the
A. The U. S. government alone funded the popular education.
B. In the U. S. public fund was given to education much earlier than in England.
C. Only in England the churches supported popular education.
D. Education in England was funded from two sources while it was funded from one in the U. S.
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knowledge of the work in the past. There is another large. reservoir which may
be called experience, and the college students will find, that every craftsman
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student who does not look down upon them. The information from them differs from
that in textbooks and papers chiefly in that its theoretical part—the
explanations of why things happen, is frequently quite fantastic. But the
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even if the reports are in completely unscientific terms. Presently the college
students will learn, in this case also, what to accept and what to reject. One
important thing for a college student to remember is that if Aristotle could
talk to the fisherman, so can he. A. we’ll invite the craftsmen to teach at the college B. schools and books are not the only way to knowledge C. scientific discoveries are based on personal experience D. discoveries and rediscoveries are the most important source of knowledge for a college student 我来回答: 提交
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