The District School Journal of the State of New York, Volumes 4-5Press of C. Van Benthuysen, 1843 |
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... applied to the purchase of books for a district library until otherwise directed by law ; but whenever the number of volumes in the district library of any district numbering over fifty children between the ages of five and sixteen ...
... applied to the purchase of books for a district library until otherwise directed by law ; but whenever the number of volumes in the district library of any district numbering over fifty children between the ages of five and sixteen ...
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... applying them to any given fatal to the prosperity , harmony and efficiency case , and able to communicate with facility , the of the district . It is better to submit to many results of his knowledge ; and unless in addition temporary ...
... applying them to any given fatal to the prosperity , harmony and efficiency case , and able to communicate with facility , the of the district . It is better to submit to many results of his knowledge ; and unless in addition temporary ...
Page 39
... applied to the purchase of books ; and in any event , the money must be expended for the one or the other of these purposes , on or before the first day of October in each year . It is respect- fully recommended to the inhabitants of ...
... applied to the purchase of books ; and in any event , the money must be expended for the one or the other of these purposes , on or before the first day of October in each year . It is respect- fully recommended to the inhabitants of ...
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... applied to pub- lications , setting forth , defending or illustrating the peculiar tenets which distinguish any one ... applying the funds pro- vided by the State , with rigid regard to their ap- propriate object , is so weighty - and ...
... applied to pub- lications , setting forth , defending or illustrating the peculiar tenets which distinguish any one ... applying the funds pro- vided by the State , with rigid regard to their ap- propriate object , is so weighty - and ...
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... applied , but , as a general principle , he insisted that it was true , that a teacher who can govern himself , could go - ciple that corporal punishment is in no cases ne- vern his school without the rod . Mr. Holcomb renewed the ...
... applied , but , as a general principle , he insisted that it was true , that a teacher who can govern himself , could go - ciple that corporal punishment is in no cases ne- vern his school without the rod . Mr. Holcomb renewed 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!