Annual Report of the Board of EducationThe Board, 1839 - Education 1st-72nd include the annual report of the Secretary of the Board. |
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... four Normal schools in different parts of the Commonwealth ; as soon as arrangements could be made for the purpose . It was supposed that the sum of twen- ty thousand dollars , with the assistance which might be expected from the ...
... four Normal schools in different parts of the Commonwealth ; as soon as arrangements could be made for the purpose . It was supposed that the sum of twen- ty thousand dollars , with the assistance which might be expected from the ...
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... four schools , would effect another object of considerable importance . The Board soon ascertained that in some parts of the community , and by some of the friends of education , it was deemed advisable to make the commencement with a ...
... four schools , would effect another object of considerable importance . The Board soon ascertained that in some parts of the community , and by some of the friends of education , it was deemed advisable to make the commencement with a ...
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... four times the number of children , and more than seven times the amount of sickness ; and the appearances of the children not thus detained by sickness , indicated a marked difference in their condi- tion as to health . On such a ...
... four times the number of children , and more than seven times the amount of sickness ; and the appearances of the children not thus detained by sickness , indicated a marked difference in their condi- tion as to health . On such a ...
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... four and sixteen , yet in almost all the towns , they are al- lowed to attend both earlier and later , and they are found from three , and sometimes from two years of age , up to twenty - one years , very frequently , and sometimes to ...
... four and sixteen , yet in almost all the towns , they are al- lowed to attend both earlier and later , and they are found from three , and sometimes from two years of age , up to twenty - one years , very frequently , and sometimes to ...
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... four or five thousand children , and it is found to succeed better than the old mode . In other places in this country , and in some parts of Europe , where education is successfully conducted , the practice of teaching words first ...
... four or five thousand children , and it is found to succeed better than the old mode . In other places in this country , and in some parts of Europe , where education is successfully conducted , the practice of teaching words first ...
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Page 166 - ... to exert their best endeavors to impress on the minds of children and youth, committed to their care and instruction, the principles of piety, justice, and a sacred regard to truth, love to their country, humanity, and universal benevolence, sobriety, industry, and frugality, chastity, moderation and temperance, and those other virtues, which are the ornament of human society, and the basis upon which a republican constitution is founded...
Page 83 - Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint, but willingly ; not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind : neither as being lords over God's heritage, but being ensamples to the flock. And when the chief Shepherd shall appear, ye shall receive a crown of glory that fadeth not away.
Page 164 - All mankind by their fall, lost communion with God, are under his wrath and curse, and so made liable to all the miseries of this life, to death itself, and to the pains of hell for ever.
Page 168 - He taught them to love even their enemies, to bless those that cursed them, and to pray for those who persecuted them. He himself prayed for his murderers. Many men hold erroneous doctrines, but we ought not to hate or persecute them. We ought to seek for the truth, and to hold fast what we are convinced is the truth ; but not to treat harshly those who are in error.
Page 107 - To the Honorable the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in General Court assembled.
Page 139 - To desire the attainment of this equality or superiority by the particular means of others being brought down to our own level, or below it, is, I think, the distinct notion of envy.
Page 167 - ... it shall be the duty of such instructors to endeavor to lead their pupils, as their ages and capacities will admit, into a clear understanding of the tendency of the above-mentioned virtues to preserve and perfect a republican constitution, and secure the blessings of liberty, as well as to promote their future happiness, and also to point out to them the evil tendency of the opposite vices.
Page 112 - Compare the effect of such a lesson as this, both as to the amount of the knowledge communicated, and the vividness, and of course the permanence, of the ideas obtained, with a lesson where the scholars look out a few names of places on a lifeless atlas, but never send their imaginations abroad over the earth ; and...
Page 130 - I have said that I saw no teacher sitting in his school. Aged or young, all stood. Nor did they stand apart and aloof in sullen dignity. They mingled with their pupils, passing rapidly from one side of the class to the other, animating, encouraging, sympathizing, breathing life into less active natures, assuring the timid, distributing encouragement and endearment to all. The looks of the Prussian teacher often have the expression and vivacity of an actor in a play. He gesticulates like an orator....
Page 60 - ... his own. It becomes then, a momentous question, whether the children in our schools are educated in reference to themselves and their private interests only, or with a regard to the great social duties and prerogatives that await them in after-life.