School and Home Education, Volume 25Public-School Publishing Company, 1906 - Education |
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... United States living on naval reservations . 8. The N. E. A. regrets the revival , in some quarters , of the idea that the common school is a place for teaching nothing but reading , spelling , writing , and ciphering , and takes this ...
... United States living on naval reservations . 8. The N. E. A. regrets the revival , in some quarters , of the idea that the common school is a place for teaching nothing but reading , spelling , writing , and ciphering , and takes this ...
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... united as to make a prac- tically indestructible atom or unit of energy . While those mutually attract- ing forces seem to be inseparable it does not appear that they are necessa- rily so . It may be discovered later that this ...
... united as to make a prac- tically indestructible atom or unit of energy . While those mutually attract- ing forces seem to be inseparable it does not appear that they are necessa- rily so . It may be discovered later that this ...
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... united effort of a determined body of teachers , who were thorough believers in the justice of their cause , and who would not listen to the threats and promises of the opposition . Of course there were a few who , as of old , became ...
... united effort of a determined body of teachers , who were thorough believers in the justice of their cause , and who would not listen to the threats and promises of the opposition . Of course there were a few who , as of old , became ...
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... the Continent as follows : ] " Fortunately for Dr. Murray Butler it has not yet occurred to the United States Customs to impose a tariff on diplomas and honorary distinctions , 40 [ September , SCHOOL AND HOME EDUCATION . COMMENT. ...
... the Continent as follows : ] " Fortunately for Dr. Murray Butler it has not yet occurred to the United States Customs to impose a tariff on diplomas and honorary distinctions , 40 [ September , SCHOOL AND HOME EDUCATION . COMMENT. ...
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... United States is emphas- ized by the fact that the number of teachers exceeds the total number of clergymen , physi- cians , and lawyers . PROPORTION OF TEACHERS TO THE NUMBER OF PERSONS BETWEEN THE AGES OF 5 YEARS AND 24 YEARS OF AGE ...
... United States is emphas- ized by the fact that the number of teachers exceeds the total number of clergymen , physi- cians , and lawyers . PROPORTION OF TEACHERS TO THE NUMBER OF PERSONS BETWEEN THE AGES OF 5 YEARS AND 24 YEARS OF AGE ...
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Page 351 - STILL sits the school-house by the road, A ragged beggar sunning ; Around it still the sumachs grow, And blackberry- vines are running. Within, the master's desk is seen, Deep scarred by raps official ; The warping floor, the battered seats, The jack-knife's carved initial ; The charcoal...
Page 377 - THERE was a child went forth every day, And the first object he look'd upon, that object he became, And that object became part of him for the day or a certain part of the day, Or for many years or stretching cycles of years.
Page 175 - And this was all the religion he had — To treat his engine well, Never be passed on the river, To mind the pilot's bell ; And if ever the Prairie Belle...
Page 351 - It touched the tangled golden curls, And brown eyes full of grieving, Of one who still her steps delayed When all the school were leaving.
Page 351 - For near her stood the little boy Her childish favor singled ; His cap pulled low upon a face Where pride and shame, were mingled. Pushing with restless feet the snow To right and left, he lingered ; — As restlessly her tiny hands The blue-checked apron fingered.
Page 345 - Who has seen the wind? Neither I nor you: But when the leaves hang trembling, The wind is passing through. Who has seen the wind ? Neither you nor I : But when the trees bow down their heads, The wind is passing by.
Page 179 - The railroad rate of one and one-third fare for the round trip, on the certificate plan...
Page 355 - When all her throes and anxious fears Lie hushed in the repose of years ; When Art shall raise and Culture lift The sensual joys and meaner thrift, And all fulfilled the vision we Who watch and wait shall never see, Who, in the morning of her race, Toiled fair or meanly in our place, But, yielding to the common lot, Lie unrecorded and forgot.
Page 345 - I COME from haunts of coot and hern, I make a sudden sally, And sparkle out among the fern, To bicker down a valley. By thirty hills I hurry down, Or slip between the ridges, By twenty thorps, a little town, And half a hundred bridges.
Page 260 - To give firmness to the will, to quicken it, and to (make it pure, strong, and enduring, in a life of pure humanity, is the chief concern, the main object in the guidance of the boy, in instruction and the school.