Ohio Educational Monthly, Volume 27

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1878 - Education

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Page 298 - ... our faculties to the greatest advantage of ourselves and others — how to live completely? And this being the great thing needful for us to learn, is, by consequence, the great thing which education has to teach. To prepare us for complete living is the function which education has to discharge ; and the only rational mode of judging of any educational course is, to judge in what degree it discharges such function.
Page 308 - Oh make Thou us, through centuries long, In peace secure, in justice strong ; Around our gift of freedom draw The safeguards of Thy righteous law : And, cast in some diviner mould, Let the new cycle shame the old ! AT SCHOOL-CLOSE.
Page 308 - OUR fathers' God! from out whose hand The centuries fall like grains of sand, We meet to-day, united, free, And loyal to our land and Thee, To thank Thee for the era .done, And trust Thee for the opening one.
Page 260 - How to live ? that is the essential question for us. Not how to live in the mere material sense only, but in the widest sense. The general problem which comprehends every special problem is the right ruling of conduct in all directions under all circumstances.
Page 344 - ways are ways of pleasantness, and all whose paths are peace.
Page 60 - No school established or aided under this section shall allow white and negro children to be received as scholars together in the same school.
Page 259 - Could a man be secure That his days would endure As of old, for a thousand long years, What things might he know! What deeds might he do! And all without hurry or care.
Page 58 - Three-fourths of said fund shall be appropriated for the benefit of the schools here ; and the remaining fourth for the establishment of one or more beyond the...
Page 398 - Common School Teachers. A digest of the provisions of statute and common law as to the relations of the Teacher to the Pupil, the Parent, and the District. With 500 references to legal decisions in 28 different States.
Page 217 - Character, — a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means.

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