Brief introduction of Columbia University School of Education:
1. The College of Education of Columbia University is a world-class graduate school of education.
2. The Library of College of Education is the largest educational academic library in the world. College is also the birthplace of doctoral education and training system, behavioral psychology school and positivism philosophy, and the famous birthday song "Yellow School Bus" also comes from this.
3. On the basis of integrating humanitarian thoughts and scientific methods, the founder believes that successful teaching depends not only on professional teachers' mastery of teaching materials, teaching methods and professional knowledge, but also on professional teachers' understanding of students' most effective learning conditions.
4. The Institute of Education was established in 1887, aiming at providing a brand-new training model for teachers of poor students in new york at that time. The school was originally named new york Teacher Training School. By 1892, the college was officially renamed Teachers College, which has been in use ever since, and merged into Columbia University in 1898, becoming one of its four affiliated colleges.
Columbia University Library:
1. The library system of Columbia University is headed by Butler Library, with 23 branches, each with its own characteristics, especially the Avery Library of Architecture and Art, the Library of Social Work College and the Library of Journalism College.
2. There are various Chinese books, popular novels, classical literature and even county chronicles in the East Asia Library of Columbia University Library.
3. The library of Columbia University has a total collection of 8.7 million volumes, 6 million sets of microfilm, 26 million manuscripts, 600,000 rare books, 654.38+vcd and DVD, 200,000 official documents and about 950 kinds of genealogy, genealogy and spy books in China, making it the library with the richest collection outside China Library.