American Journal of Education and College Review, Volume 28Office of American Journal of Education, 1878 - Education Vol. 17-24 include the circulars, reports and documents issued by the editor as commissioner of education (vol. 18 is the American year-book and register for 1869; v. 19, Special report on education in the District of Columbia). |
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... appear to have possessed an aptitude for the work , joined in it ; and pupils were not wanting . In 1643 , M. Thomas du Fossé , a gentleman of Rouen , brought three of his sons to Port Royal and placed them in the hands of a M. Selles ...
... appear to have possessed an aptitude for the work , joined in it ; and pupils were not wanting . In 1643 , M. Thomas du Fossé , a gentleman of Rouen , brought three of his sons to Port Royal and placed them in the hands of a M. Selles ...
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... appear till 1655. Both of these were also published in an abridged form . An Italian and a Spanish Grammar on the same plan , followed in 1660 , and four treatises on Latin , French , Italian , and Spanish Poetry , respectively , in ...
... appear till 1655. Both of these were also published in an abridged form . An Italian and a Spanish Grammar on the same plan , followed in 1660 , and four treatises on Latin , French , Italian , and Spanish Poetry , respectively , in ...
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... appear in the progress of mankind . It was natural that , when the education of mankind was deeply pondered , the evolu- tion of the single mind should arrest attention . And at length it did . This is not so easy a subject as we are ...
... appear in the progress of mankind . It was natural that , when the education of mankind was deeply pondered , the evolu- tion of the single mind should arrest attention . And at length it did . This is not so easy a subject as we are ...
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... appears in manifold forms , such as skill , dex- terity , readiness of information , & c . It is a steeling of the internal for action upon the external , as the Passive is a steeling of the internal against the influ- ence of the ...
... appears in manifold forms , such as skill , dex- terity , readiness of information , & c . It is a steeling of the internal for action upon the external , as the Passive is a steeling of the internal against the influ- ence of the ...
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... appears to be negligence , rudeness , immorality , foolishness , or oddity , may arise from some real needs of the youth which in their development have only taken a wrong direction . If it should appear on such examination that the ...
... appears to be negligence , rudeness , immorality , foolishness , or oddity , may arise from some real needs of the youth which in their development have only taken a wrong direction . If it should appear on such examination that the ...
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Page 304 - Promote, then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened.
Page 602 - It was at Rome, on the 1 5 thp of October, 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the bare-footed friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.
Page 419 - There shall the great owl make her nest, and lay, and hatch, and gather under her shadow : there shall the vultures also be gathered, every one with her mate.
Page 303 - Among the means, which have been employed to this end, none have been attended with greater success than the establishment of boards, composed of proper characters, charged with collecting and diffusing information, and enabled by premiums, and small pecuniary aids, to encourage and assist a spirit of discovery and improvement.
Page 482 - The day will come when, in the State of New York, a multitude of people, none of whom has had more than half a breakfast, or expects to have more than half a dinner, will choose a legislature.
Page 482 - Caesar or Napoleon will seize the reins of government with a strong hand, or your republic will be as fearfully plundered and laid waste by barbarians in the twentieth century as the Roman Empire was in the fifth, with this difference, that the Huns and Vandals who ravaged the Roman Empire came from without, and that your Huns and Vandals will have been engendered within your own country by your own institutions.
Page 470 - The question now before us is simply whether, when it is in our power to teach this language, we shall teach languages in which, by universal confession, there are no books on any subject which deserve to be compared to our own...
Page 302 - ... convincing those who are intrusted with the public administration, that every valuable end of government is best answered by the enlightened confidence of the people; and by teaching the people themselves to know, and to value their own rights; to discern and provide against invasions of them; to distinguish between oppression and the necessary exercise of lawful authority, between burthens proceeding from a disregard to their convenience and those resulting from the inevitable exigencies of...
Page 308 - ... contracting too frequently not only habits of dissipation and extravagance, but principles unfriendly to republican government, and to the true and genuine liberties of mankind, which thereafter are rarely overcome ; for these reasons it has been my ardent wish to see a plan devised, on a liberal scale, which would have a tendency to spread systematic ideas through all parts of this rising empire, thereby to do away with local attachments and State prejudices, as far as the nature of things would,...
Page 302 - To the security of a free constitution it contributes in various ways : by convincing those who are intrusted with the public administration, that every valuable end of government is best answered by the enlightened confidence of the people ; and by teaching the people themselves to know and to value their own rights; to discern and provide against invasions of them ; to distinguish between oppression and the necessary exercise of lawful authority...