Addresses and Proceedings - National Education Association of the United States, Volume 38Vols. for 1866-70 include Proceedings of the American Normal School Association; 1866-69 include Proceedings of the National Association of School Superintendents; 1870 includes Addresses and journal of proceedings of the Central College Association. |
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... language . Great care should be taken not to attempt too much . If the United States government should employ teachers of English ( and these must all be acquainted with the Spanish language ) to make weekly visits to the several ...
... language . Great care should be taken not to attempt too much . If the United States government should employ teachers of English ( and these must all be acquainted with the Spanish language ) to make weekly visits to the several ...
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... Language has been considered a solvent of racial incongruities ; and in this there is a large element of truth . Those who have a common language understand one another better than those who have not . And " to know is to forgive , " as ...
... Language has been considered a solvent of racial incongruities ; and in this there is a large element of truth . Those who have a common language understand one another better than those who have not . And " to know is to forgive , " as ...
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... languages , and yet none who speak English — the language of the schools . Yet , as a means of further education , a common language is all - important . This is almost exclusively the work of the schools . Our schools are , in a ...
... languages , and yet none who speak English — the language of the schools . Yet , as a means of further education , a common language is all - important . This is almost exclusively the work of the schools . Our schools are , in a ...
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... language and literature , pure science , fine arts . Special and technical courses : education , law , medicine , theology , engineering , architecture , agriculture , and other special courses . As a result of this arrangement we shall ...
... language and literature , pure science , fine arts . Special and technical courses : education , law , medicine , theology , engineering , architecture , agriculture , and other special courses . As a result of this arrangement we shall ...
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... languages has he stood unrivaled . In the modern languages , English , history , mathematics , and the natural sciences he has often found his equal . Frequently the knowledge of the specialist , or the professional skill of the normal ...
... languages has he stood unrivaled . In the modern languages , English , history , mathematics , and the natural sciences he has often found his equal . Frequently the knowledge of the specialist , or the professional skill of the normal ...
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Page 129 - And let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
Page 273 - That all moneys derived from the sale of the lands aforesaid by the States to which the lands are apportioned, and from the sales of land scrip hereinbefore provided for, shall be invested in stocks of the United States, or of the States, or some other safe stocks, yielding not less than five per centum upon the par value of said stocks...
Page 7 - 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 745 - The work should comprise, in addition to the elementary course, the reading of about 400 pages of moderately difficult prose and poetry, with constant practice in giving, sometimes orally and sometimes in writing, paraphrases, abstracts, or reproductions from memory of selected portions of the matter read ; also grammatical drill upon the less usual strong verbs, the use of articles, cases, auxiliaries of all kinds, tenses and modes (with special reference to the infinitive and subjunctive), and...
Page 573 - His Mother, who was patient, being dead. Then, fearing lest his grief should hinder sleep, I visited his bed, But found him slumbering deep, With darken'd eyelids, and their lashes yet From his late sobbing wet.
Page 736 - ... drill upon the rudiments of grammar, that is, upon the inflection of the articles, of such nouns as belong to the language of every-day life, of adjectives, pronouns, weak verbs, and the more usual strong verbs; also upon the use of the more common prepositions, the simpler uses...
Page 574 - A box of counters and a red-vein'd stone, A piece of glass abraded by the beach, And six or seven shells, A bottle with bluebells, And two French copper coins, ranged there with careful art, To comfort his sad heart.
Page 205 - And the eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no need of thee: nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you.
Page 129 - 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 5 - ... two years, one for three years and one for four years beginning on November 1, 1935.