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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... teachers is greater in proportion to the number of pupils enrolled than in any other State in the Union . The percentage of normal - trained teachers in the common schools - of our State is greater than in New York , the same as in ...
... teachers is greater in proportion to the number of pupils enrolled than in any other State in the Union . The percentage of normal - trained teachers in the common schools - of our State is greater than in New York , the same as in ...
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... teacher , there seems little prospect of their having one for several years . A few days ago I went to the place for the purpose of making inquiries in reference to the prospects of a school . I visited seven families , in which there ...
... teacher , there seems little prospect of their having one for several years . A few days ago I went to the place for the purpose of making inquiries in reference to the prospects of a school . I visited seven families , in which there ...
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... teachers are not so much the exception nowadays , and that teaching is being regarded more and more as a profession rather than as a trade . " Teaching , " says Mr. Fitch , " is the noblest of all professions , but it is the sorriest of ...
... teachers are not so much the exception nowadays , and that teaching is being regarded more and more as a profession rather than as a trade . " Teaching , " says Mr. Fitch , " is the noblest of all professions , but it is the sorriest of ...
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... teacher and a failure with another , we must conclude that much more depends upon the teacher than the system . We are most concerned , then , with the teacher . And yet another difficulty here arises . How can we determine who it is ...
... teacher and a failure with another , we must conclude that much more depends upon the teacher than the system . We are most concerned , then , with the teacher . And yet another difficulty here arises . How can we determine who it is ...
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... teacher is made to realize this fact , the better for himself and others . When Dr. Arnold entered upon his duties at ... teachers will show this to be the wiser and safer course . I may cite a single instance : On one occasion two boys ...
... teacher is made to realize this fact , the better for himself and others . When Dr. Arnold entered upon his duties at ... teachers will show this to be the wiser and safer course . I may cite a single instance : On one occasion two boys ...
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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.