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  • known in English as Academies or Academies of Classical Learning, were private ... *Taga, Akigoro. The History of Education in T'ang China: Todai ...
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  • Category:Education Category:Universities and Colleges Liberal arts ... In the history of education, the seven liberal arts comprised two ...
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  • who specifically focused on the advancement of child welfare. Younger sister ... One of four children, Grace Abbott was raised in a home environment ...
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  • Seminary (UTS), is an accredited institution of higher learning offering programs ... in the ministry, serving a wide spectrum of denominations and broadening ...
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  • and Northern Zhou (北周) Dynasties of northern China, and their successor ... also with literature, the arts, and problems of life and death. Yan stressed ...
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  • Category:Education funded school provided for public education; for the British public ...
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  • theory, and their applications to education. method and its application to the study of human nature. Thus, he supported ...
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  • The American Ballet Theatre (ABT), based in New York City, was one ... Few ballet companies equal ABT for its combination of size, scope ...
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  • who created the McGuffey Readers, one of America's first textbook ... on religion and a belief in the value of education. In 1802, the family ...
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  • reformer, who dedicated more than 40 years of his life to the education of ... the first of its kind in the history of education. The program of this ...
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  • Category:Education Preschool education is education that focuses on educating children ...
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  • Category:Education Greek were emphasized. Four distinct uses of the word can be noted, the ...
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  • this direction he helped lay the foundations of modern Korea. ... Henry Appenzeller was the second of three sons born to Gideon and ...
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  • armaments manufacturer, and the inventor of dynamite. He owned Bofors, ... == Early life and education == Nobel was born in Stockholm, Sweden ...
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  • The Public Knowledge Project is a non-profit research initiative of ... Public Knowledge Project developed a number of types of open source ...
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  • He is best known as a part-owner and leader of Sears, Roebuck and Company ... Over the course of his life, Rosenwald and his fund donated over ...
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  • and historian, better known as the “Father of the Olympics." Coubertin ... He was the primary force in the revival of the Olympic Games in 1896 ...
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  • Category:Education A high school is the name used in some parts of the world, particularly ...
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  • social worker and reformer, the pioneer of the social work education movement ... 1, 1866 in Lexington, Kentucky, the second of seven children of Issa Desha ...
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  • The Science Museum (London) is one of many major science museums in ... has well integrated the past and the future of sciences and technologies, ...
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  • Category:Education Category:Universities and Colleges {{Infobox University ... most recognizable structure on the campus of Kyoto University]] ...
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  • Category:Education Bilingual education involves teaching all subjects in school through ...
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  • Category:Education [[Image:Musica 1488.jpg|thumb|250px|Early teaching ... * Monroe, Paul. A Text-Book in the History of Education. Macmillan, 1915. ...
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  • significant research in the sociology of education which strongly impacted ... his Ph.D. in 1955, working with the Bureau of Applied Social Research (1953 ...
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  • Betty Boothroyd, Baroness Boothroyd, Order of Merit (OM), Privy Council ... Unusually, she was a Labour member of Parliament elected as Speaker ...
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  • :For Science Museum of London, see Science museum (London) ... tended to concentrate on static displays of objects related to natural ...
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  • 1947) was a Hungarian-born sociologist, one of the founding fathers of classical ... which is now Hungary. He was the only child of a Hungarian father and a German ...
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  • the Transcendentalist movement as the editor of its journal The Dial. When ... From 1839 to the mid-1840s she organized discussion groups of women ...
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  • involve movements that are a combination of difficult feats of balance ... flips, and other tricks to entertain large groups of people. ...
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  • , established in 1945, is an agency of the United Nations. Its purpose ... and offices throughout the world. Most of the field offices are "cluster ...
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  • Category:Education Category:Universities and Colleges {{Infobox University ... |affiliations = University Alliance Association of Commonwealth ...
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  • – December 1, 1792) is the only playwright of the Russian Enlightenment whose ... Born in 1745, in Moscow, of a family of gentry, he received a good ...
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  • A music library contains music-related materials for patron use. Use ... For example, the University of Virginia Library provides access to ...
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  • was very concerned with American higher education, and was known for his ... Crowd (1950) is considered a landmark study of American character. The analysis ...
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  • | method = Education, training, research, lobbying | revenue = $125 ... largest private, nonprofit conservation education and advocacy organization ...
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  • Thanatology is the academic, and often scientific, study of death ... Knowledge and understanding of the process of death and dying, and ...
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  • Category:Education Home education, also called homeschooling or home school, is the process ...
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  • woman ever allowed to practice at the bar of the United States Supreme Court ... Until her death in 1917, she worked tirelessly on behalf of the Universal ...
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  • James A. Naismith, (November 6, 1861 – November 28, 1939) Bachelor ... November 6, 1861. James was the eldest son of Scottish immigrants John and ...
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  • Category:Education Category:Universities and Colleges {{Infobox_University ... college in 1861, it was the first member of the Seven Sisters to become ...
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  • It provides a simple and standardized set of conventions for describing ... and "core" implies the possibility of expansion. In 1995, the OCLC ...
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  • class life in Victorian London at the end of the nineteenth century. Booth ... His Life and Labour of the People of London provided important insights ...
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  • The Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, popularly known ... The bureau was put into effect to protect the best interests of former ...
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  • referred to as Joe Brown, was a Governor of Georgia from 1857 to 1865, ... acquiring great wealth at the misery of others, mainly convict laborers ...
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  • Category:Education Category:Universities and Colleges {{Infobox_University ... corner stones, polished after the similitude of a palace - Psalms 144:12 ...
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  • John Dewey (October 20, 1859 – June 1, 1952) is regarded as one ... Throughout most of his 92 years, Dewey was an internationally renowned ...
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  • made important contributions to the studies of ancient history, epigraphy ... At the age of twenty-two, Wang went to Shanghai and became a protégé ...
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  • Category:Education Category:Universities and Colleges {{Infobox_University ... |name = University of Tokyo |native_name = 東京大学 (Tōkyō ...
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  • quot; in David Merrick's production of Hello Dolly!—a part first ... She was born in Newport News, Virginia, (also the birth place of legendary ...
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  • ; also spelled Kweichow) is a province of the People's Republic ... Guizhou sat on the fringe of the Chinese empire until the Ming dynasty ...
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