Report of the Board of Education of the State of Connecticut to the Governor: Together with the Report of the Secretary of the Board

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Lockwood & Brainard Company, 1862

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Page 26 - There is that scattereth and yet increaseth ; and there is that withholdeth more than is mete, and it tendeth to poverty.
Page 142 - All parents, and those who have the care of children, shall bring them up in some honest and lawful calling or employment, and shall instruct them, or cause them to be instructed, in reading, writing, English grammar, geography, and the elements of arithmetic.
Page 78 - to labor in any manufacturing establishment, or in any other business, in this State, unless such child shall have attended some public or private day school at least three months of the twelve next preceding any and every year in which such child shall be
Page 51 - school where instruction is given by a teacher qualified to instruct in orthography, reading, writing, English grammar, geography and arithmetic, at least three months of the twelve next preceding any and every year «in which such child shall be so employed.
Page 50 - all parents, and those who have the care of children, shall instruct them, or cause them to be instructed, in reading, writing, English grammar, geography and the elements of arithmetic.
Page 73 - A wise son maketh a glad father ; but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.
Page xix - may be appraised under the direction of the town, and at the next annual assessment thereafter a tax shall be levied upon the whole town, equal to the amount of said appraisal ; and there shall then be remitted to the tax-payers of each district the appraised value of its property thus taken,
Page 3 - maintain a school kept by a master, who shall give instruction in general history, book-keeping, surveying, geometry, natural philosophy, chemistry, botany, the civil polity of the Commonwealth and of the United States, and the Latin language.

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