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... Primer , or Lessons in Spelling and Reading , adapted to the understanding of children ; composed and published by a Committee , appointed for the purpose by the School Convention of Franklin county , May 25 , 1826. Greenfield , Mass ...
... Primer , or Lessons in Spelling and Reading , adapted to the understanding of children ; composed and published by a Committee , appointed for the purpose by the School Convention of Franklin county , May 25 , 1826. Greenfield , Mass ...
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... , at the age of two and a half or three years , to imitate the alphabetic characters . " Mr. Fowle's school consists wholly of females . 4. In " Worcester's Primer , " recently published , 38 METHOD OF TEACHING THE ALPHABET .
... , at the age of two and a half or three years , to imitate the alphabetic characters . " Mr. Fowle's school consists wholly of females . 4. In " Worcester's Primer , " recently published , 38 METHOD OF TEACHING THE ALPHABET .
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... PRIMER . " [ That is , by Hilliard , Gray , & Co. Boston . ] ( To be concluded . ) ACCOUNT OF THE SYSTEM OF INFANT SCHOOLS . ( Concluded . ) Children should be taught such things only as they can under- stand , and as will interest and ...
... PRIMER . " [ That is , by Hilliard , Gray , & Co. Boston . ] ( To be concluded . ) ACCOUNT OF THE SYSTEM OF INFANT SCHOOLS . ( Concluded . ) Children should be taught such things only as they can under- stand , and as will interest and ...
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... Primer assigns three letters for the first lesson , to be read " three or four times at once . " If it is judicious to show a child two or three letters for his first les- son , it is so to show him two or three more at his second ...
... Primer assigns three letters for the first lesson , to be read " three or four times at once . " If it is judicious to show a child two or three letters for his first les- son , it is so to show him two or three more at his second ...
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... Primer , but rather like those on the two following pages . The letters in the Franklin Primer are of a good form , but too small in size . The letters should be large , in order that every part of a letter may attract the child's ...
... Primer , but rather like those on the two following pages . The letters in the Franklin Primer are of a good form , but too small in size . The letters should be large , in order that every part of a letter may attract the child's ...
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Popular passages
Page 137 - This Constitution may be amended at any annual meeting of the Association by a two-thirds vote of the members present.
Page 58 - I curj0sity had occasion just to mention, § 108) is but an appetite after knowledge, and therefore ought to be encouraged in them, not only as a good sign, but as the great instrument nature has provided, to remove that ignorance they were born with, and which without this busy inquisitiveness will make them dull and useless creatures.
Page 289 - ... to endeavor to lead their pupils, as their ages and capacities will admit, into a clear understanding of the tendency of the above-mentioned virtues to preserve and perfect a republican constitution, and secure the blessings of liberty, as well as to promote their future happiness, and also to point out to them the evil tendency of the opposite vices.
Page 381 - At such visitation, the town superintendent shall examine into the state and condition of such schools, both as respects the progress of the scholars in learning, and the good order of the schools ; and may give his advice and direction to the trustees and teachers of such schools as to the government thereof, and the course of studies to be pursued therein.
Page 352 - Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day that the LORD bindeth up the breach of his people, and healeth the stroke of their wound.
Page 290 - Committee consisting of three, five, or seven persons, who shall have the general charge and superintendence of all the public schools in said town, which are supported at the expense thereof.
Page 349 - ... unnecessary expense. The poor man who has gained a taste for good books, will in all likelihood become thoughtful ; and when you have given the poor a habit of thinking, you have conferred on them a much greater favour than by the gift of a large sum of money, since you have put them in possession of the principle of all legitimate prosperity.
Page 289 - ... the principles of piety, justice, and a sacred regard to truth, love to their country, humanity, and universal benevolence, sobriety, industry, and frugality, chastity, moderation and temperance, and those other virtues, which are the ornament of human society, and the basis upon which a republican constitution is founded...
Page 71 - Education should seek to bring its subjects to the perfection of their moral, intellectual and physical nature, in order that they may be of the greatest possible use to themselves and others ; or to use a different expression, that they may be the means of the greatest possible happiness of which they are capable, both as to what they enjoy and what they communicate.
Page 288 - ... for such term of time as shall be equivalent to twelve months for one school in...