The District School Journal of the State of New York, Volumes 4-5Press of C. Van Benthuysen, 1843 |
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... natural protector of the child ; and as before the committee . There were two kinds of the God of nature always adopts the best means to ac- grammars : one where the author was an inde - complish the desired ends , he has endowed her ...
... natural protector of the child ; and as before the committee . There were two kinds of the God of nature always adopts the best means to ac- grammars : one where the author was an inde - complish the desired ends , he has endowed her ...
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... nature . He was glad this subject had health , comfort and convenience of both teacher and been brought prominently forward among the mat- The plan contemplates that the height of the seats ters of inquiry and remark embodied in the ...
... nature . He was glad this subject had health , comfort and convenience of both teacher and been brought prominently forward among the mat- The plan contemplates that the height of the seats ters of inquiry and remark embodied in the ...
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... natural history , espe The instruction which Oberlin afforded to the cially botany , natural philosophy , music , and ... nature ; it was impressed upon their minds , that as they lived in a district separated by mountains from the rest ...
... natural history , espe The instruction which Oberlin afforded to the cially botany , natural philosophy , music , and ... nature ; it was impressed upon their minds , that as they lived in a district separated by mountains from the rest ...
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... nature is this beautiful , and , to the child , one for all ordinary purposes . It consists of delightful mode of instruction , than the old nothing but a soft planed board , varying in size fashioned one of grinding him down to the un ...
... nature is this beautiful , and , to the child , one for all ordinary purposes . It consists of delightful mode of instruction , than the old nothing but a soft planed board , varying in size fashioned one of grinding him down to the un ...
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... nature of the child to feel otherwise . He will have no peace himself , and therefore will give his mo- ther no peace , till he understands and knows that the point is settled , and how it is settled . If you give him no answer till he ...
... nature of the child to feel otherwise . He will have no peace himself , and therefore will give his mo- ther no peace , till he understands and knows that the point is settled , and how it is settled . If you give him no answer till 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!