Popular Education: For the Use of Parents and Teachers, and for Young Persons of Both Sexes |
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I promised God that I would look upon every Prussian peasant child as a being who could complain of me before God if I did not provide for him the best education , as a man and a Christian , which it was possible for me to provide .
I promised God that I would look upon every Prussian peasant child as a being who could complain of me before God if I did not provide for him the best education , as a man and a Christian , which it was possible for me to provide .
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Page 221 - Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism, who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of men and citizens.
Page 221 - Let it simply be asked, where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation desert the oaths, which are the instruments of investigation in courts of justice ? And let us with caution indulge the supposition, that morality can be maintained •without religion.
Page 235 - ... and the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind.
Page 368 - State should therefore establish the principle that the property of the State should educate the children of the State.
Page 447 - That the selectmen of every town in the several precincts and quarters where they dwell, shall have a vigilant eye over their brethren and neighbors, to see, first, that none of them shall suffer so much barbarism in any of their families, as not to endeavor to teach by themselves or others, their children and apprentices so much learning, as may enable them perfectly to read the English tongue, and knowledge of the capital laws, upon penalty of twenty shillings for each neglect therein...
Page 447 - Forasmuch as the good education of children is of singular behoof and benefit to any commonwealth, and whereas many parents and masters are too indulgent and negligent of their duty in that kind: It is...
Page 353 - The first duty of government, and the surest evidence of good government, is the encouragement of education. A general diffusion of knowledge is the precursor and protector of republican institutions, and in it we must confide as the conservative power that will watch over our liberties and guard them against fraud, intrigue, corruption and violence.
Page 123 - American Asylum at Hartford, for the Education and Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb.
Page 152 - The poor child had sat in mute amazement, and patiently imitated everything her teacher did ; but now the truth began to flash upon her ; her intellect began to work. She perceived that here was a way by which she could herself make up a sign of anything that was in her own mind, and show it to another mind ; and at once her countenance lighted up with a human expression.
Page 311 - What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. Sure he that made us with such large discourse, Looking before and after, gave us not That capability and god-like reason To fust in us unus'd.
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| Title | Popular Education: For the Use of Parents and Teachers, and for Young Persons of Both Sexes Making of America |
| Author | Ira Mayhew |
| Publisher | Harper & Brothers, 1850 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 17 Feb 2006 |
| ISBN | 1425552773, 9781425552770 |
| Length | 480 pages |
| Subjects | › › History / United States / General |
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