Author: Benjamin Franklin Publisher: First Avenue Editions ™ ISBN: 1512405264 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 220
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Between 1771 and 1790, American Founding Father Benjamin Franklin sat down to record the important events of his life, from his childhood in Boston to his work as a printer in Philadelphia, to his trips to Paris and his plans for the first public library. The story of the invention of the Franklin stove, the first Poor Richard's Almanac, and his experiments with electricity are all included here. His "Project for Moral Perfection"—a list of desirable virtues and steps to achieve them—influenced the modern self-help genre. Hundreds of years later, Franklin's account of his rise from middle-class obscurity to become a world-renowned scholar and civic figure continues to promote the American Dream. First published in 1791, this unabridged version of Franklin's autobiography is taken from the 1909 copyright edition.
Author: Michael C. Johanek Publisher: Temple University Press ISBN: 9781592135219 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 396
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What is the mission of American public education? As a nation, are we still committed to educating students to be both workers and citizens, as we have long proclaimed, or have we lost sight of the second goal of encouraging students to be contributing members of a democratic society? In this enlightening book, John Puckett and Michael Johanek describe one of America's most notable experiments in "community education." In the process, they offer a richly contextualized history of twentieth-century efforts to educate students as community-minded citizens. Although student test scores now serve to measure schools' achievements, the authors argue compellingly that the democratic goals of citizen-centered community schools can be reconciled with the academic performance demands of contemporary school reform movements. Using the twenty-year history of community-centered schooling at Benjamin Franklin High School in East Harlem as a case study-and reminding us of the pioneering vision of its founder, Leonard Covello-they suggest new approaches for educating today's students to be better "public citizens."
Author: Nick Bunker Publisher: Vintage ISBN: 1101872802 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 466
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In this new account of Franklin's early life, Pulitzer finalist Nick Bunker portrays him as a complex, driven young man who elbows his way to success. From his early career as a printer and journalist to his scientific work and his role as a founder of a new republic, Benjamin Franklin has always seemed the inevitable embodiment of American ingenuity. But in his youth he had to make his way through a harsh colonial world, where he fought many battles with his rivals, but also with his wayward emotions. Taking Franklin to the age of forty-one, when he made his first electrical discoveries, Bunker goes behind the legend to reveal the sources of his passion for knowledge. Always trying to balance virtue against ambition, Franklin emerges as a brilliant but flawed human being, made from the conflicts of an age of slavery as well as reason. With archival material from both sides of the Atlantic, we see Franklin in Boston, London, and Philadelphia as he develops his formula for greatness. A tale of science, politics, war, and religion, this is also a story about Franklin's forebears: the talented family of English craftsmen who produced America's favorite genius.
Author: David Excelmons Cloyd Publisher: Theclassics.Us ISBN: 9781230448640 Category : Languages : en Pages : 22
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 edition. Excerpt: ... SYSTEM OF EDUCATION ADVOCATED BY FRANKLIN The sources in which are found in the most finished form Franklin's recommendations for the organization of education are: The Rules His Writings governing the Junto; Proposals relaton ing to the Education of Youth in Education. Pennsylvania; Sketch of an English School; Observations concerning the Intentions of the Original Founders of the Philadelphia Academy. Other valuable ideas and explanations are found in minor treatises and in letters to friends. Franklin, being himself self-educated, advocated a system whereby each individual could so utilize the sources and forces about him that in so doing he would become learned System f of Education and useful. It was just the system advocated Dy which he had educated himself, by him. He believed that a man by his own efforts could reach perfection in almost any art. This we have set forth in the discussion of his plan for attaining to moral perfection. His altruism led him to give to others whatever he had found useful to himself, and his utilitarianism led him to seek from others what could be made of use to himself. This idea took shape in the Junto,1 a literary and debating club organized by him when he was twenty-two years old, for the purpose of applying his principles of self-education in a cooperative way. The importance of mutual aid was strongly Literaryand emphasized in the rules governing the Debating club. Every member was required to Societypropose queries for discussion, and periodically j to produce and read an essay of his own writing j upon some subject of interest to him. The de-' bates were conducted in the sincere spirit of inquiry after truth, and members were prohibited, by small pecuniary penalties, from indulging in offensive...
Author: Benjamin Franklin
Author: David Excelmons Cloyd
Author: Benjamin Franklin
Author: Michael C. Johanek
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Author: Benjamin Franklin
Author: Benjamin Franklin
Author: Benjamin Franklin
Author: Nick Bunker
Author: David Excelmons Cloyd