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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... never was a time when the need was greater for a wide - spread evangelical movement to begin , that shall make real once more the faith that has well - nigh become a mere formula . A Robert Raikes now , and here , to give new vitality ...
... never was a time when the need was greater for a wide - spread evangelical movement to begin , that shall make real once more the faith that has well - nigh become a mere formula . A Robert Raikes now , and here , to give new vitality ...
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... Never having subdued himself he will never subdue the world of chaos , or any part of it as his life work , but will have to be subdued by external constraint on the part of his fellow- men . own . 4. Too strict discipline , on the ...
... Never having subdued himself he will never subdue the world of chaos , or any part of it as his life work , but will have to be subdued by external constraint on the part of his fellow- men . own . 4. Too strict discipline , on the ...
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... 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- vidual , nor have they been able to tell just where the point is beyond ...
... 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- vidual , nor have they been able to tell just where the point is beyond ...
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... never become the objects of our thoughts . The proper functions of the High School is not to teach tech- nical knowledge , nor to train its members directly for any of the professions or occupations of practical life . is good policy ...
... never become the objects of our thoughts . The proper functions of the High School is not to teach tech- nical knowledge , nor to train its members directly for any of the professions or occupations of practical life . is good policy ...
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... never be separated in any com- plete course of instruction . A scientific education pre- pares the mind to think with certainty , and a literary education enables the mind to express its thoughts with propriety . Science is general ...
... never be separated in any com- plete course of instruction . A scientific education pre- pares the mind to think with certainty , and a literary education enables the mind to express its thoughts with propriety . Science is general ...
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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...