The District School Journal of the State of New York, Volumes 4-5 |
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This , in my opi . leacher has not infused into their souls a love of nion , was not the case , for I do believe he did learning . How much benefit does a school re . not know enough to be embarrassed . He left ceive from the services ...
This , in my opi . leacher has not infused into their souls a love of nion , was not the case , for I do believe he did learning . How much benefit does a school re . not know enough to be embarrassed . He left ceive from the services ...
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To these Then the same method of pointing is pursued a exhortations , children generally pay but little month or two longer , in learning him to spell attention . They continue to read on in the same ba , be , bi , bo , bu , by , when ...
To these Then the same method of pointing is pursued a exhortations , children generally pay but little month or two longer , in learning him to spell attention . They continue to read on in the same ba , be , bi , bo , bu , by , when ...
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In other cases they have seminary of learning . mistaken their office , supposing themselves There are many more who support no govern . clerks when they were trustees . In the town ment at all , or next ...
In other cases they have seminary of learning . mistaken their office , supposing themselves There are many more who support no govern . clerks when they were trustees . In the town ment at all , or next ...
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These prejudices may be of that kind that shall give a their learning should be the honor of their Crea . plation of this great truth , that the chief end of wrong bias to their conduct through life , and in a great measure deprive them ...
These prejudices may be of that kind that shall give a their learning should be the honor of their Crea . plation of this great truth , that the chief end of wrong bias to their conduct through life , and in a great measure deprive them ...
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... where they Teachers are bound to look after these things ; are instructed in elegant learning and science ; and they should consider themselves as the consti- going home to speak at their simple table , of the tuted guardians of the ...
... where they Teachers are bound to look after these things ; are instructed in elegant learning and science ; and they should consider themselves as the consti- going home to speak at their simple table , of the tuted guardians of the ...
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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!