The District School Journal of the State of New York, Volumes 4-5Press of C. Van Benthuysen, 1843 |
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... child reads again , when the teacher again exhorts him to speak " distinct . " To these exhortations , children ... child what they are , and require him to speak them . This is generally practiced four times a day from three to twelve ...
... child reads again , when the teacher again exhorts him to speak " distinct . " To these exhortations , children ... child what they are , and require him to speak them . This is generally practiced four times a day from three to twelve ...
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... children by al- lowing them to do as they please , and produc ing in their feelings a spirit of insubordination and ... child by telling him " you must not draw your words so . " The manner inlaid broad and deep ; which the subsequent ...
... children by al- lowing them to do as they please , and produc ing in their feelings a spirit of insubordination and ... child by telling him " you must not draw your words so . " The manner inlaid broad and deep ; which the subsequent ...
Page 7
... children receive from such teachers does them more hurt than good . What little truth they inculcate is so mixed with error , that when the child comes to think for him- self , it takes longer to separate the compound than it would to ...
... children receive from such teachers does them more hurt than good . What little truth they inculcate is so mixed with error , that when the child comes to think for him- self , it takes longer to separate the compound than it would to ...
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... children is endangered . A gentleman by the name of Bell taught the school in 1839 , and sickened while so doing , and ... child is naturally healthy - sent her to school two or three weeks , when she was taken sick . On her recovery she ...
... children is endangered . A gentleman by the name of Bell taught the school in 1839 , and sickened while so doing , and ... child is naturally healthy - sent her to school two or three weeks , when she was taken sick . On her recovery she ...
Page 10
... children of the more wealthy and influential families are withdrawn from the public school , it ceases , of necessity ... child who is brought up ex . clusively in a private school , and especially a boy , is not thoroughly educated . He ...
... children of the more wealthy and influential families are withdrawn from the public school , it ceases , of necessity ... child who is brought up ex . clusively in a private school , and especially a boy , is not thoroughly educated . He ...
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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!