Annual Report of the Board of Education, Volumes 21-22The Board, 1858 - Education 1st-72nd include the annual report of the Secretary of the Board. |
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Page 49
... district system and pru- dential committees . These are at present serious educational evils ; and as the immediate abolition of the district system cannot reasonably be anticipated , I am led to seek anxiously for its reformation . The ...
... district system and pru- dential committees . These are at present serious educational evils ; and as the immediate abolition of the district system cannot reasonably be anticipated , I am led to seek anxiously for its reformation . The ...
Page 51
... district system exists , is the experience of all . The prudential committee contracts with a teacher , under the influence of any motive , however singular in itself and however inconsistent with the public weal . It may be mere ...
... district system exists , is the experience of all . The prudential committee contracts with a teacher , under the influence of any motive , however singular in itself and however inconsistent with the public weal . It may be mere ...
Page 52
... district schools more than ever before local in their character . But I do not apprehend any permanent evil from ... districts usually are , to select teachers , visit schools and prepare reports . The services of such men are still to ...
... district schools more than ever before local in their character . But I do not apprehend any permanent evil from ... districts usually are , to select teachers , visit schools and prepare reports . The services of such men are still to ...
Page 53
... district school ought to contain twenty pupils at least , and it will be much more profitable when it contains from thirty to fifty . In towns whose population is stationary or dimin- ishing , any increase in the size of the schools ...
... district school ought to contain twenty pupils at least , and it will be much more profitable when it contains from thirty to fifty . In towns whose population is stationary or dimin- ishing , any increase in the size of the schools ...
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... district limits ; for as long as they are not required to maintain the school - houses the power in question is . more likely to be exercised with reference to the wishes of the districts than for the advancement of the interests of ...
... district limits ; for as long as they are not required to maintain the school - houses the power in question is . more likely to be exercised with reference to the wishes of the districts than for the advancement of the interests of ...
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Page 19 - ... to impress on the minds of children and youth, committed to their care and instruction, 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 241 - There is no office higher than that of a teacher of youth, for there is nothing on earth so precious as the mind, soul, character of the child. No office should be regarded with greater respect. The first minds in the community should be encouraged to assume it. Parents should do all but impoverish themselves, to induce such to become the guardians and guides of their children. To this good, all their show and luxury should be sacrificed.
Page 39 - It shall be the duty of the president, professors, and tutors of the University at Cambridge, and of the several colleges, and of all preceptors and teachers of academies, and all other instructors of youth, to exert their best endeavors to impress on the minds of children and youth committed to their care and instruction the principles of piety...
Page 82 - I am young, and ye are very old ; Wherefore I was afraid, And durst not show you mine opinion. I said, Days should speak, And multitude of years should teach wisdom.
Page 132 - ... to exert their best endeavors to impress on the minds of children and youth committed to their care and instruction 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 86 - ... the principles of piety and justice and a sacred regard to truth; love of 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 123 - ... it shall be the duty of such instructors 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 102 - I have been able to satisfy myself that about one half the young females brought up as they are at present, undergo some visible and obvious change of structure ; that a considerable number are the subjects of great and permanent deviations, and that not a few entirely lose their health from the manner in which they are reared.
Page lxxvi - In some cases the true mean average is not obtained by this process, for reasons peculiar to the schools of some towns. In such cases school committees were requested to indicate in their returns the true mean average, that their result may be inserted in the Table. The ratio is expressed in decimals, continued to four figures, the first two of •which are separated from the last two by a point, as only the two former are essential to denote the real per cent. Yet the ratios of many towns are so...
Page 58 - The board may appoint one or more suitable agents to visit the several towns and cities for the purpose of inquiring into the condition of the schools, conferring with teachers and committees, lecturing upon subjects connected with education, and in general of giving and receiving information upon subjects connected with education, in the same manner as the secretary might do if he were present.