DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR BUREAU OF EDUCATION BULLETIN, 1919, No. 30 THE AMERICAN SPIRIT IN EDUCATION By C. R. MANN CHAIRMAN ADVISORY BOARD OF THE COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION AND SPECIAL TRAINING, WAR DEPARTMENT ADDITIONAL COPIES OF THIS PUBLICATION MAY BE PROCURED FROM THE SUPERINTENDENT OF DOCUMENTS GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE WASHINGTON, D. C. ᎪᎢ 10 CENTS PER COPY CONTENTS. Page. 5 7 8 10 13 15 15 18 22 22 23 25 28 30 30 83 37 39 41 42 48 48 50 55 55 55 58 Letters of transmittal.. Chapter I.—Benjamin Franklin, the prophet of American education_-_ Chapter VI.—The development of technical education___ Federal endowments of land-grant colleges---- Engineering education_ Chapter VII.-The future of American education_ Mobilization of Army and industries_ Committee on Education and Special Training of the War Depart ment--- Students' Army Training Corps---- ♡ LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, BUREAU OF EDUCATION, • Washington, D. C., March 28, 1919. SIR: America inherited most of the content, form, and spirit of the education of its schools from Europe; but from Colonial times until now there has been an ever-increasing tendency to adapt these more closely to the needs of life in America and to the American spirit of service. This tendency has been given unusual impetus by the exigencies of war through which we have just passed and of readjustment through which we are now passing. The present and the immediate future therefore seem to offer an opportunity, which should not be neglected, to unify the life and work and education of America more completely and more vitally than has ever before been possible. The results of a study of the American spirit in education, embodied in the inclosed manuscript by Dr. C. R. Mann, of the advisory committee of the Committee on Education and Special Training of the Department of War, will, I believe, be helpful to this end. I therefore recommend that it be published as a bulletin of the Bureau of Education. Respectfully submitted. THE SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR. P. P. CLAXTON, Commissioner. 5 |