Prize Essay and Lectures, Delivered Before the American Institute of Instruction ... Including the Journal of Proceedings, Volume 55American Institute of Instruction, 1884 - Education List of members included in each volume, beginning with 1891. |
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... necessary in order that there may be no distraction of the attention of others from their work ; secondly , it is a direct discipline in the art of combining the diffused and feeble efforts of the pupil himself . These mechanical duties ...
... necessary in order that there may be no distraction of the attention of others from their work ; secondly , it is a direct discipline in the art of combining the diffused and feeble efforts of the pupil himself . These mechanical duties ...
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... necessary for admission to the University . The old Grammar School of England was transplanted in the Massachusetts Colony in 1647 by an act of the general court requiring every township containing one hundred families or householders ...
... necessary for admission to the University . The old Grammar School of England was transplanted in the Massachusetts Colony in 1647 by an act of the general court requiring every township containing one hundred families or householders ...
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... necessary to the well - being of the state . These philoso- phers have never drawn a very definite line separating from all other knowledge and discipline , that which is necessary for the well - being of the state and of the indi ...
... necessary to the well - being of the state . These philoso- phers have never drawn a very definite line separating from all other knowledge and discipline , that which is necessary for the well - being of the state and of the indi ...
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... necessary to a respectable position in the professions , but unnecessary to success in the manual occupations of life . Young people intending to go into business , as it is called , frequently leave school before their courses of study ...
... necessary to a respectable position in the professions , but unnecessary to success in the manual occupations of life . Young people intending to go into business , as it is called , frequently leave school before their courses of study ...
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... necessary to guide the hands to successful physical as it is to guide the faculties to suc- cessful mental labor . A knowledge of general principles and of the best means for the accomplishment of desired ends , holds the same relation ...
... necessary to guide the hands to successful physical as it is to guide the faculties to suc- cessful mental labor . A knowledge of general principles and of the best means for the accomplishment of desired ends , holds the same relation ...
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Page 82 - I call therefore a complete and generous education, that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war.
Page 238 - And Nature, the old nurse, took The child upon her knee, Saying: "Here is a story-book Thy Father has written for thee." "Come wander with me," she said, "Into regions yet untrod, And read what is still unread In the manuscripts of God." And he wandered away and away With Nature, the dear old nurse, Who sang to him night and day The rhymes of the universe. And whenever the way seemed long, Or his heart began to fail, She would sing a more wonderful song, Or tell a more marvellous tale.
Page 28 - Ring out false pride in place and blood, The civic slander and the spite ; Ring in the love of truth and right, Ring in the common love of good. Ring out old shapes of foul disease, Ring out the narrowing lust of gold ; Ring out the thousand wars of old, Ring in the thousand years of peace. Ring in the valiant man and free, The larger heart, the kindlier hand ; Ring out the darkness of the land, Ring in the Christ that is to be.
Page 27 - Ring out the grief that saps the mind, For those that here we see no more; Ring out the feud of rich and poor, Ring in redress to all mankind.
Page 162 - Now, the broad shield complete, the artist crowned With his last hand, and poured the ocean round ; In living silver seemed the waves to roll, And beat the buckler's verge, and bound the whole.
Page 21 - Or lose thyself in the continuous woods Where rolls the Oregon and hears no sound Save his own dashings...
Page 163 - I had rather speak five words with my understanding than ten thousand words in a tongue.
Page 69 - I shall confine myself, however, to education in the narrower sense ; the culture which each generation purposely gives to those who are to be its successors, in order to qualify them for at least keeping up, and if possible for raising, the level of improvement which has been attained.
Page 191 - The instruction of the people in every kind of knowledge that can be of use to them in the practice of their moral duties as men, citizens, and Christians, and of their political and civil duties as members of society and freemen...
Page 162 - Large before, the country has now, by recent events, become vastly larger. This Republic now extends, with a vast breadth, across the whole Continent. The two great seas of the world wash the one and the other shore. We realize, on a mighty scale, the beautiful description of the ornamental...