Proceedings, Abstracts of Lectures and a Brief Report of the Discussions of the National Teachers' Association, the National Association of School Superintendents and the American Normal School Association |
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... idea of trade schools , and the thought , which even good Pestalozzi admitted , of education . as a means of bread - winning . That America is still discussing this question , only shows how firmly established the old idea was of ...
... idea of trade schools , and the thought , which even good Pestalozzi admitted , of education . as a means of bread - winning . That America is still discussing this question , only shows how firmly established the old idea was of ...
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... ideas , because there are no new ideas . These men will get up , look wise and talk learnedly , but they will not say anything new . They will dress up the old things in new forms , and you may not recognize the hash , but it will be ...
... ideas , because there are no new ideas . These men will get up , look wise and talk learnedly , but they will not say anything new . They will dress up the old things in new forms , and you may not recognize the hash , but it will be ...
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... idea of promoting self - help . Freedom means self - help . The only help that it is safe for one man to give another is that help which promotes self- help . This is the only safe help , either on the part of the individual , or the ...
... idea of promoting self - help . Freedom means self - help . The only help that it is safe for one man to give another is that help which promotes self- help . This is the only safe help , either on the part of the individual , or the ...
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... idea of public instruction as supported by the State . This is its language : " A high degree of intelligence , patriotism , integrity and morality on the part of every voter , as indispensable in a government by the people . " In ...
... idea of public instruction as supported by the State . This is its language : " A high degree of intelligence , patriotism , integrity and morality on the part of every voter , as indispensable in a government by the people . " In ...
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... idea . You have multiplied our colleges a hundred fold , and yet the catalogues of Harvard and Yale prove the loyalty of her children's children to the classic associations of their fathers . Horace Mann * Read by W. E. Sheldon . and ...
... idea . You have multiplied our colleges a hundred fold , and yet the catalogues of Harvard and Yale prove the loyalty of her children's children to the classic associations of their fathers . Horace Mann * Read by W. E. Sheldon . and ...
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Page 221 - State which may take and claim the benefit of this act, to the endowment, support, and maintenance of at least one college where the leading object shall be, without excluding other scientific and classical studies, and including military tactics, to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts, in such manner as the legislatures of the States may respectively prescribe, in order to promote the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes in the...
Page 558 - Of law there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world ; all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power ; both angels, and men, and creatures of what condition soever, though each in different sort and manner, yet all with uniform consent, admiring her as the mother of their peace and joy.
Page 275 - ... hath made of one blood all nations of men to dwell on all the face of the earth...
Page 7 - Trustee shall be elected for one year, one for two years, one for three years, and one for four years, and...
Page 70 - Yet I doubt not through the ages one increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns.
Page 281 - Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? Fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer as a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?
Page 216 - UNION, strong and great! Humanity with all its fears, With all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate! We know what Master laid thy keel, What Workmen wrought thy ribs of steel, Who made each mast, and sail, and rope, What anvils rang, what hammers beat, In what a forge, and what a heat Were shaped the anchors of thy hope!
Page 241 - If a teacher, though a genins, would attempt to "prove all things and hold fast to that which is good," he would keep on all through life proving things and would have no time to "hold fast.
Page 327 - Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice. His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff : you shall seek all day ere you find them, and when you have them, they are not worth the search.
Page 5 - To elevate the character and advance the interests of the profession of teaching, and to promote the cause of popular education in the United States.