The American Journal of Education, Volume 28Henry Barnard F.C. Brownell, 1878 - Education |
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... scholars ; only a very few , he thought , were worthy of a learned education ; and the practice of conducting all through the same course of instruction ended in incumbering Church and State with a crowd of incompetent servants . The ...
... scholars ; only a very few , he thought , were worthy of a learned education ; and the practice of conducting all through the same course of instruction ended in incumbering Church and State with a crowd of incompetent servants . The ...
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... scholars returned to Port Royal only to be transferred in 1646 to Paris . The work increased upon the teachers ' hands as well as their own capacity for performing it ; many of their friends in the world eagerly desired the benefit of ...
... scholars returned to Port Royal only to be transferred in 1646 to Paris . The work increased upon the teachers ' hands as well as their own capacity for performing it ; many of their friends in the world eagerly desired the benefit of ...
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... scholars who manifested some poetical faculty ; to others , the task could only be painful and productive of no result . But sometimes it was thought well to exercise a whole class in this way ; the subject was chosen by the teacher ...
... scholars who manifested some poetical faculty ; to others , the task could only be painful and productive of no result . But sometimes it was thought well to exercise a whole class in this way ; the subject was chosen by the teacher ...
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... scholar . Nor do I know where else in that age to look for a modest yet dig- nified assertion of the worth of the ... scholars , the sufficient reply is that their single object was the education of Christian men . The mention of the ...
... scholar . Nor do I know where else in that age to look for a modest yet dig- nified assertion of the worth of the ... scholars , the sufficient reply is that their single object was the education of Christian men . The mention of the ...
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... scholar . To take a nearer view of this matter , we can bring the influences that bear on it under four general heads . First , an educating influence can be exercised on the scholars in immediate connection with the objects of ...
... scholar . To take a nearer view of this matter , we can bring the influences that bear on it under four general heads . First , an educating influence can be exercised on the scholars in immediate connection with the objects of ...
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Page 308 - 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 466 - Council is of opinion that the great object of the British Government ought to be the promotion of European literature and science among the natives of India; and that all the funds appropriated for the purpose of education would be best employed on English education alone.
Page 164 - Forasmuch as it hath pleased the Almighty God by the wise disposition of his divine providence so to Order and dispose of things that we the Inhabitants and Residents of Windsor, Hartford and Wethersfield are now cohabiting and dwelling in and upon the River of Conectecotte and the Lands thereunto adjoining...
Page 465 - It may safely be said that the literature now extant in that language is of far greater value than all the literature which three hundred years ago was extant in all the languages of the world together.
Page 476 - Either some 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 476 - I seriously apprehend that you will, in some such season of adversity as I have described, do things which will prevent prosperity from returning...
Page 475 - I have long been convinced that institutions purely democratic must, sooner or later, destroy liberty or civilization, or both. In Europe, where the population is dense, the effect of such institutions would be almost instantaneous.
Page 307 - 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 170 - English tongue, and knowledge of the capital laws, upon penalty of twenty shillings for each neglect therein ; alai, that all masters of families, do, once a week, at least catechise their children and servants, in the grounds and principles of religion...
Page 94 - And ye shall teach them your children, speaking of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.