Throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, schooner trade was a well-developed system of maritime transport for commodities such as grain, lumber, and iron. The schooner trade was as critical to the development of the Great Lakes region as covered wagons were to the Far West and paddle wheel steamers were to the South. Schooners sailed the Great Lakes in large numbers and played a formative role in the shaping of pioneer life throughout the region. The schooners that traveled the Lake Michigan basin succeeded in bringing a range of shoreline communities and four...
Throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, schooner trade was a well-developed system of maritime transport for commodities such as g...
So, educational reform is on the national agenda. We want better education with not much more money, students who want to learn, teachers who want to teach, industry who can select from our students without going abroad for talent. Everybody says they want it, but what's the problem here? This book has the simplest of purposes, which is to return students to their natural human accord with learning as the basis of educational reform. It describes how students have been separated from their innate proclivity to learn; how we have allowed the pervasive rationalism of our culture to dominate our...
So, educational reform is on the national agenda. We want better education with not much more money, students who want to learn, teachers who want to ...
