Citizenship and the SchoolsH. Holt, 1906 - 264 pagine |
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Pagina 199 - The citizen should be moulded to suit the form of government under which he lives." For each government has a peculiar character which originally formed and which continues to preserve it. The character of democracy creates democracy, and the character of oligarchy creates oligarchy; and always the better the character, the better the government.
Pagina 75 - These are traits and measures and modes; and the true test of civilization is, not the census, nor the size of cities, nor the crops, — no, but the kind of man the country turns out.
Pagina 207 - That education should be regulated by law and should be an affair of state is not to be denied, but what should be the character of this public education, and how young persons should be educated, are questions which remain to be considered.
Pagina 88 - This every man is entitled to; this every man contains within him, although in almost all men obstructed, and as yet unborn.
Pagina 21 - On a map of the world you may cover Judea with your thumb, Athens with a finger tip, and neither of them figures in the prices current, but they still lord it in the thought and action of every civilized man.
Pagina 21 - Weimar ? Material success is good, but only as the necessary preliminary of better things. The measure of a nation's true success is the amount it has contributed to the thought, the moral energy, the intellectual happiness, the spiritual hope and consolation, of mankind.
Pagina 240 - ... could be furnished to the people of this state for use in the common schools at the lowest price, taking into consideration the size and quality as to matter, material, style of binding and mechanical execution of such books : Provided, always, That such board shall not in any case contract with any author, publisher or publishers for the furnishing of any book, manuscript, copyright or books which shall be sold to patrons for use in the public schools of this state at a price above or in excess...
Pagina 240 - The Governor of the State, the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, the president of the State University, the president of...