The paper begins with a brief vignette of Angkor Wat in Cambodia as a great center of learning, and then highlights the traditions of Indian monastic institutions which had deeply influenced its development. It then turns the main features of the Mahayana tradition of Buddhism, showing how they created a space for women's scholarship to flourish.…

Christian theology amidst post-communist societies finds itself in a precarious situation as it seeks to emerge from the competing social imaginaries of its totalitarian Soviet past and the democratic capitalism of its future. To do so, eschatological hope will need to spring eternal as it seeks understanding by faith in love of the triune God and…

This volume contains the remaining two parts of the 1890-'91 Commissioner of Education report. Part II includes: name register; history and status of public kindergarten and ecoles gardiennes in several European countries; statistical summaries of city public schools; secondary schools; higher education; professional schools; education in…

In this report, the Commissioner of Education comments on data on city and state education, school superintendence, cost of education and police, increased attention to schoolhouse ventilation, women as school officers, women's education, the Vienna Exposition and awards to American educational exhibitors, American educators' European visits,…

In this thirteenth annual report, the Commissioner of Education discusses the Bureau of Education's work, with a list of its publications from the year. The Commissioner also presents summary data of institutions, instructors, and students; school age, population, enrolment, and attendance; legal school ages in the United States; teachers employed…

The Commissioner of Education reviews the work of the office, and provides discussion and data, with some diagrams on the following topics: six-year summary of institutions, instructors, and students; enrollment and attendance of the school-age population; public school teacher employment and salaries; per-capita expenditures on ungraded schools…