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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... child and his maturity , and that the school - age limit of each individual child should be determined by requiring the child to meet physical and mental tests , even tho the child be in years above the age standard ; in other words , a ...
... child and his maturity , and that the school - age limit of each individual child should be determined by requiring the child to meet physical and mental tests , even tho the child be in years above the age standard ; in other words , a ...
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... children about which I am supposed to speak , I should answer that the greatest glory is that there are so many of them . Eliminating the city child , whose problem is practically solved every- where , we address ourselves to the rural ...
... children about which I am supposed to speak , I should answer that the greatest glory is that there are so many of them . Eliminating the city child , whose problem is practically solved every- where , we address ourselves to the rural ...
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... children cry for protec- tion against their parents and their would - be employers . Therefore the extension of child - labor laws prohibiting the employment of any child who is under twelve years of age is to be greatly urged . Such ...
... children cry for protec- tion against their parents and their would - be employers . Therefore the extension of child - labor laws prohibiting the employment of any child who is under twelve years of age is to be greatly urged . Such ...
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... children are in most cases solved for the adult , and hence the adult misses their significance . Because childhood's troubles are solved situa- tions to the adult it does not follow that they are not important to the child . Children's ...
... children are in most cases solved for the adult , and hence the adult misses their significance . Because childhood's troubles are solved situa- tions to the adult it does not follow that they are not important to the child . Children's ...
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... child , and the special school or group of schools for children retarded thru ill - health , irregularity , or absence from school . Of equal importance is the school for the gifted child , he who can easily accomplish more than the ...
... child , and the special school or group of schools for children retarded thru ill - health , irregularity , or absence from school . Of equal importance is the school for the gifted child , he who can easily accomplish more than the ...
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Page 2 - 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.
Page 351 - Refuse to express a passion, and it dies. Count ten before venting your anger, and its occasion seems ridiculous. Whistling to keep up courage is no mere figure of speech. On the other hand, sit all day in a moping posture, sigh, and reply to everything with a dismal voice, and your melancholy lingers. There is no more valuable precept in moral education than this, as all who have...
Page 357 - Pleasure comes through toil and not by self-indulgence and indolence. When one gets to love work, his life is a happy one.
Page 621 - It was not until about the middle of the nineteenth century that the study of Euclid became common in the secondary schools of England.
Page 786 - And when the evening mist clothes the riverside with poetry, as with a veil, and the poor buildings lose themselves in the dim sky, and the tall chimneys become campanili, and the warehouses are palaces in the night, and the whole city hangs in the heavens...
Page 156 - Nor ever narrowness or spite, Or villain fancy fleeting by, Drew in the expression of an eye, Where God and Nature met in light...
Page 3 - SEC. 4. That all real property of the corporation within the District of Columbia, which shall be used by the corporation for the educational or other purposes of the corporation as aforesaid, other than the purposes of producing income, and all personal property and funds of the corporation held, used, or invested for educational purposes aforesaid, or to produce income to be used for such purposes, shall be exempt from taxation; * Deceased,.
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Page 351 - There is no more valuable precept in moral education than this, as all who have experience know if we wish to conquer undesirable emotional tendencies in ourselves, we must assiduously, and in the first instance coldbloodedly, go through the outward movements of those contrary dispositions which we prefer to cultivate.
Page 719 - We are always in these days endeavouring to separate the two; we want one man to be always thinking, and another to be always working, and we call one a gentleman, and the other an operative; whereas the workman ought often to be thinking, and the thinker often to be working, and both should be gentlemen, in the best sense.