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Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton. Survey of the State of Education - 1853 341 95 LB41 .L95 Survey of the state of education , a Gutman Library APD3677 3 2044 028 960 474 2841 L95 Medwar , S. A HARVARD UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL. Front ...
Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton. Survey of the State of Education - 1853 341 95 LB41 .L95 Survey of the state of education , a Gutman Library APD3677 3 2044 028 960 474 2841 L95 Medwar , S. A HARVARD UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL. Front ...
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Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton. HARVARD UNIVERSITY VELRI TAS LIBRARY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION SURVEY OF THE STATE OF EDUCATION , ARISTOCRATIC AND POPULAR.
Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton. HARVARD UNIVERSITY VELRI TAS LIBRARY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION SURVEY OF THE STATE OF EDUCATION , ARISTOCRATIC AND POPULAR.
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... UNIVERSITY OF ST . ANDREW'S . " Men generally need knowledge to overpower their passions and master their prejudice ; and therefore to see your brother in ignorance is to see him unfurnished to all good works : and every master is to ...
... UNIVERSITY OF ST . ANDREW'S . " Men generally need knowledge to overpower their passions and master their prejudice ; and therefore to see your brother in ignorance is to see him unfurnished to all good works : and every master is to ...
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Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton. } PREFACE . ADDRESS TO THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES. 2841 L95 Medwar , S. A HARVARD UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION MONROE C. GUTMAN LIBRARY JUN 3 1926.
Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton. } PREFACE . ADDRESS TO THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES. 2841 L95 Medwar , S. A HARVARD UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION MONROE C. GUTMAN LIBRARY JUN 3 1926.
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... University , and causeth great men and esquires to send their sons thither , and put out poor scholars that should be divines . " of events , the rich , by a necessary law But if the poor have been thus cheated of one ...
... University , and causeth great men and esquires to send their sons thither , and put out poor scholars that should be divines . " of events , the rich , by a necessary law But if the poor have been thus cheated of one ...
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Page 32 - 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 33 - A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy, or, perhaps, both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
Page 32 - ... to discriminate the spirit of liberty from that of licentiousness, cherishing the first, avoiding the last, and uniting a speedy, but temperate vigilance against encroachments, with an inviolable respect to the laws.
Page 32 - Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness. In one, in which the measures of government receive their impression so immediately from the sense of the community, as in ours, it is proportionally essential.
Page 33 - A popular Government, without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy; or perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; And a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
Page 30 - the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness.
Page 33 - Roads and canals, by multiplying and facilitating the communications and intercourse between distant regions and multitudes of men, are among the most important means of improvement. But moral, political, intellectual improvement are duties assigned by the Author of Our Existence to social no less than to individual man.
Page 34 - There is but one method of preventing crimes, and of rendering a republican form of government durable, and that is, by disseminating the seeds of virtue and knowledge through every part of the state, by means of proper modes and places of education, and this can be done effectually only by the interference and aid of the legislature.
Page 5 - that though they have been in operation more than ten years, and on an average more than 3000 have been educated at them every year, not one of those educated there has been ever committed for a crime. In New York, a similar effect has been observed.
Page 34 - Among the first, perhaps the very first instrument for the improvement of the condition of men, is knowledge ; and to the acquisition of much of the knowledge adapted to the wants, the comforts, and enjoyments of human life, public institutions and seminaries of learning are essential.