Virginia School Report: Annual Report of the Superintendent of Public InstructionSuperintendent of Public Printing, 1901 - Education |
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Page xlii
... cooking and sewing . Under the stimulus of modern life and industrial progress it will not be long before some form of manual training will find a place in every public school of the land . We are living in a wonderful age . Dur- ing ...
... cooking and sewing . Under the stimulus of modern life and industrial progress it will not be long before some form of manual training will find a place in every public school of the land . We are living in a wonderful age . Dur- ing ...
Page xliv
... cooking and other things in the sphere of domestic economy should not be beneath the dignity of any school system that pretends to prepare young people for the duties of active life . OUR HIGHER INSTITUTIONS . For the condition of the ...
... cooking and other things in the sphere of domestic economy should not be beneath the dignity of any school system that pretends to prepare young people for the duties of active life . OUR HIGHER INSTITUTIONS . For the condition of the ...
Page lv
... cooking , and dress - making . The Normal Department has been placed under the direction of Mr. Charles Bartlett Dyke , a graduate of the Leland Stanford University , and more recently a student in the Teachers ' College in New York ...
... cooking , and dress - making . The Normal Department has been placed under the direction of Mr. Charles Bartlett Dyke , a graduate of the Leland Stanford University , and more recently a student in the Teachers ' College in New York ...
Page lvii
... cooking throughout their course of study , but as yet no practical work has been provided for the men . In spite of this deficiency in the equipment and course of instruction , the school is doing excellent service in sending out every ...
... cooking throughout their course of study , but as yet no practical work has been provided for the men . In spite of this deficiency in the equipment and course of instruction , the school is doing excellent service in sending out every ...
Page lxv
... cook and serve a meal and to make her own dresses and underclothing . " The work in the trades , in manual training , in agri- culture , and in domestic science , as well as in the academic and normal de- partments , is of such rare ...
... cook and serve a meal and to make her own dresses and underclothing . " The work in the trades , in manual training , in agri- culture , and in domestic science , as well as in the academic and normal de- partments , is of such rare ...
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Page xlii - Association," for the full period of twenty years, the purpose and objects of which are 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 lxx - ... to illuminate, as far as practicable, the minds of the people at large, and more especially to give them knowledge of those facts, which history exhibiteth, that, possessed thereby of the experience of other ages and countries, they may be enabled to know ambition under all its shapes, and prompt to exert their natural powers to defeat its purposes...
Page lxx - ... that, even under the best forms, those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny ; and it is believed that the most effectual means of preventing this would be to illuminate, as far as...
Page 87 - If, then, you wish to insure the interest of your pupils, there is only one way to do it; and that is to make certain that they have something in their minds to attend with, when you begin to talk.
Page 94 - The question with me is, not whether you have a right to render your people miserable ; but whether it is / not your interest to make them happy. It is not, what a lawyer tells me I may do ; but what humanity, reason, and justice, tell me I ought to do.
Page lxxi - At every of those schools shall be taught reading, writing, and common arithmetick, and the books which shall be used therein for instructing the children to read shall be such as will at the same time make them acquainted with Graecian, Roman, English, and American history.
Page lxxiv - ... and whose parents are too poor to give them farther education, some one of the best and most promising genius and disposition, to proceed to the grammer school of his district ; which appointment shall be made in the court-house of the county, and on the court day for that month if fair, and if not, then on the next fair day, excluding Sunday, in the presence of the Aldermen, or two of them at...
Page lxxiii - ... hands and seals of the said jurors, together with the writ, to the clerk's office of the said county and the right and property of the said proprietors and tenants in the said lands so circumscribed shall be immediately divested...
Page xlvi - History, by apprising them of the past, will enable them to judge of the future; it will avail them of the experience of other times and other nations; it will qualify them as judges of the actions and designs of men...
Page lxxii - ... admit, without fractional divisions) an overseer shall be appointed annually by the aldermen at their first meeting, eminent for his learning, integrity, and fidelity to the commonwealth, whose business and duty it shall be, from time to time, to appoint a teacher to each school, who shall give assurance of fidelity to the commonwealth, and to remove him as he shall see cause ; to visit every school once in every half year at the least ; to examine the scholars ; see that any general plan of...