The teacher
Subtitle: essays and addresses on education
By: by George Herbert Palmer and Alice Freeman Palmer.
Contributors: Palmer, Alice Freeman, 1855-1902.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company
Published: 1908
Place of publication: Boston and New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 395
Subjects: Education; Education, Higher; Women -- Education
Notes: Reprinted from various sources.
Table of contents: title: I. By G.H.Palmer.  Problems of school and college: The ideal teacher.  Ethical instruction in schools.  Moral instruction in schools. Self cultivation in Englihs.  Doubts about university extension.  Specialization.  The glory of the imperfect.- II. By G.H.Palmer.  Harvard papers: The new education.  Erroneous limitations of the elective system.  Necessary limitations of the elective system.  College expenses.  A teacher of the olden time [Profesor Sophocles]- III. Papers by Alice F. Palmer: Three types of women's colleges.  Women's education in the nineteenth century.  Women's education at the World's fair.  Why go to college?