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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... question , has been the means of bringing culture and refinement and a taste for knowledge into the homes of thou- sands that would otherwise have remained , to a great extent , ignorant of many of the simple facts of history ...
... question , has been the means of bringing culture and refinement and a taste for knowledge into the homes of thou- sands that would otherwise have remained , to a great extent , ignorant of many of the simple facts of history ...
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... question of months when China , the greatest aggregate of people with an indigenous government that has ever existed , will be partitioned . There is no territory of uncivil- ized people that will remain long out of the possession of ...
... question of months when China , the greatest aggregate of people with an indigenous government that has ever existed , will be partitioned . There is no territory of uncivil- ized people that will remain long out of the possession of ...
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... question , and needs to be under- stood if one is going to sit in judgment upon national achievements . Let us consider the answer which can be made to this question : What is it that makes one civilization higher than another ? What is ...
... question , and needs to be under- stood if one is going to sit in judgment upon national achievements . Let us consider the answer which can be made to this question : What is it that makes one civilization higher than another ? What is ...
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... question whether any great attainments in the way of civilization can be made in the tropics has been seriously discussed in the United States by men of recognized ability . Unfortunately some of them have followed a course of deductive ...
... question whether any great attainments in the way of civilization can be made in the tropics has been seriously discussed in the United States by men of recognized ability . Unfortunately some of them have followed a course of deductive ...
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... question , What has he to know or to do in order that he may do this piece of work that his class in the high school is doing ? That is the first question . When you have settled that , the next question is : What of those things does ...
... question , What has he to know or to do in order that he may do this piece of work that his class in the high school is doing ? That is the first question . When you have settled that , the next question is : What of those things does ...
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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.