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Tertiary education

Tertiary education
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Overview

advanced level of education

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  1. It is hardly possible to overstate the agreement of education and psychology at this point. The course of study was thoroughly, even if unconsciously, controlled by the assumption that since mind and its faculties are the same throughout, the subject-matter of the adult, logically arranged facts and principles, is the natural “study” of the child—simplified and made easier of course, since the wind must be tempered…

    John Dewey, The school and society

    Close in meaning to Tertiary education; the term itself is not named.

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  2. But it has filtered through into elementary education and largely controls its processes and aims. But, on the other hand, certain concessions have been made to the masses who must engage in getting a livelihood and to the increased role of economic activities in modern life.

    John Dewey, Democracy and Education

    Close in meaning to Tertiary education; the term itself is not named.

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  3. It becomes with every schoolmaster an object of ambition and an avenue to success to have furnished pupils who have gained a high place in these competitions, and there is hardly any other mode in which the state can do so much to raise the quality of educational institutions throughout the country.

    John Stuart Mill, Considerations on Representative Government

    Close in meaning to Tertiary education; the term itself is not named.

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Part of History of philosophy in Poland.

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