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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... recitations and to the oral instruction of his enlarged classes . Another point , of great importance to the schools , was well illustrated in the change at Nantucket . When I was there in 1837 , a private school was in operation , kept ...
... recitations and to the oral instruction of his enlarged classes . Another point , of great importance to the schools , was well illustrated in the change at Nantucket . When I was there in 1837 , a private school was in operation , kept ...
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... recitation of verses , mingled with ac- tion , and of juvenile games , played in the chimney corner . And the reason is , that for the one , there is desire ; while against the other , there is repugnance . The teacher , in one case ...
... recitation of verses , mingled with ac- tion , and of juvenile games , played in the chimney corner . And the reason is , that for the one , there is desire ; while against the other , there is repugnance . The teacher , in one case ...
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... recite a lesson with literal correctness , respecting the boundaries of the different States in the Union ; and it may be impossible for the teacher to determine , whether this is done by a mental reference to divisional lines and ad ...
... recite a lesson with literal correctness , respecting the boundaries of the different States in the Union ; and it may be impossible for the teacher to determine , whether this is done by a mental reference to divisional lines and ad ...
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... recitations are of little consequence , except as they lead to habits of investigation , and of a clear statement of things known ; and that external actions are nothing in comparison with the motives from which they emanate ; -these ...
... recitations are of little consequence , except as they lead to habits of investigation , and of a clear statement of things known ; and that external actions are nothing in comparison with the motives from which they emanate ; -these ...
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... recitation , with the necessary accompaniment of oral explanations . This course would promote two great pur- poses , economy in time , and efficiency of instruction , and would thereby immeasurably increase both the quantity and the ...
... recitation , with the necessary accompaniment of oral explanations . This course would promote two great pur- poses , economy in time , and efficiency of instruction , and would thereby immeasurably increase both the quantity and the ...
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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.