The District School Journal of the State of New York, Volumes 4-5Press of C. Van Benthuysen, 1843 |
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... hope to realize , through the medium of a perfect system of public education . What an elevation of manners , in the whole people , what respectfulness to merit in all grades of life , what a friendly understanding , without jealousy of ...
... hope to realize , through the medium of a perfect system of public education . What an elevation of manners , in the whole people , what respectfulness to merit in all grades of life , what a friendly understanding , without jealousy of ...
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... hope that the extracts we are enabled to give from these valuable reports , will lead to the republication of them at length in the county newspapers . No information can be more use- ful - none should be more interesting to the peo ...
... hope that the extracts we are enabled to give from these valuable reports , will lead to the republication of them at length in the county newspapers . No information can be more use- ful - none should be more interesting to the peo ...
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... hope from their influence a rapid and general diffu- sion of those thorough methods of culture , which shall give new dignity to the profession of teach- ing , and greater usefulness and popularity to our district schools . We trust ...
... hope from their influence a rapid and general diffu- sion of those thorough methods of culture , which shall give new dignity to the profession of teach- ing , and greater usefulness and popularity to our district schools . We trust ...
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... hope of our country . For they feel that the heart of the people must be reinforced by a higher and sterner morality ; that the common mind must be enlightened by a wiser and better culture ; that our schools must teach virtue as well ...
... hope of our country . For they feel that the heart of the people must be reinforced by a higher and sterner morality ; that the common mind must be enlightened by a wiser and better culture ; that our schools must teach virtue as well ...
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... hope to see parents once more the faithful inspectors and supervisors of their children's schools . But if with no equivalent substitute , we abandon the present and relapse back into the past , shall we not be faithless to our trust ...
... hope to see parents once more the faithful inspectors and supervisors of their children's schools . But if with no equivalent substitute , we abandon the present and relapse back into the past , shall we not be faithless to our trust ...
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Page 185 - Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking makes what we read ours. We are of the ruminating kind, and it is not enough to cram ourselves with a great load of collections; unless we chew them over again, they will not give us strength and nourishment.
Page 34 - Any person conceiving himself aggrieved may appeal or petition to the commissioner of education who is hereby authorized and required to examine and decide the same; and the...
Page 117 - In years of plenty many thousands of them meet together in the mountains, where they feast and riot for many days ; and at country weddings, markets, burials, and other the like public occasions, they are to be seen, both men and women, perpetually drunk, cursing, blaspheming, and fighting together.
Page 213 - 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.
Page 30 - But still," said the young one, "I would gladly know the reason of this mutual slaughter. I could never kill what I could not eat.
Page 30 - ... flesh, had not nature, that devoted him to our uses, infused into him a strange ferocity, which I have never observed in any other being that feeds upon the earth. Two herds of men will often meet and shake the earth with noise, and fill the air with fire. When you hear noise and see fire, with flashes along the ground, hasten to the place with your swiftest wing, for men are surely destroying one another ; you will then find the ground smoking with blood, and covered with carcasses, of which...
Page 34 - ... or of any district numbering fifty children or less, between the said ages, shall exceed one hundred volumes, the inhabitants of the district qualified to vote therein, may, at a special meeting, duly notified for that purpose, by a majority of votes, appropriate the whole, or any part of library money belonging to the district for the current year, to the purchase of maps, globes, blackboards, or other scientific apparatus, for the use of the school.
Page 39 - I do not exaggerate when I say that the most active and lively schools I have ever seen in the United States, must be regarded almost as dormitories, if compared with the fervid life of the Scotch schools ; and, by the side of theirs, our pupils would seem to be hybernating animals just emerging from their torpid state, and as yet but half conscious of the possession of life and faculties.
Page 32 - He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much : and he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much.
Page 78 - Be kind to each other ! The night's coming on, When friend and when brother Perchance may be gone '. Then 'midst our dejection How sweet to have earned The best recollection, Of kindness — returned!