Annual Report

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1855
 

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Pàgina 134 - authorized to issue their warrants for the calling of district meetings in their respective towns; and the said plantation school districts shall have power to choose all district officers, which school districts in towns have; and said officers shall have the same powers and be subject to the same duties of school district officers in towns. Sect.
Pàgina 13 - that led The starry host, rode brightest; till the moon Rising in clouded majesty, at length, Apparent queen, unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. -now
Pàgina 116 - which are the ornaments of human society. And it shall be the duty of such instructors to endeavor to lead those under their care, as their ages and capacities will admit, into a particular understanding of the tendency of the before-mentioned virtues, to preserve and perfect a republican constitution, and secure the
Pàgina 116 - a universal benevolence: sobriety, industry and frugality, chastity, moderation and temperance; and all other virtues which are the ornaments of human society. And it shall be the duty of such instructors to endeavor to lead those under their care, as their ages and capacities will admit, into a particular understanding of the tendency of the
Pàgina 22 - The pupils on entering the school are required to sign the following declaration:—" We, the subscribers, hereby declare, that it is our intention to devote ourselves to the business of teaching the schools of the State, and that our sole object in resorting to this Normal School is the better to prepare ourselves for this important
Pàgina 16 - our schools do comparatively little for want of educated instructors. Without good teaching a school is but a name. An institution for training men to train the young would be a fountain of living waters, sending forth streams to refresh present and future ages. As yet, our legislators have denied to the poor and laboring classes this
Pàgina 100 - a parent who sends his son into the world uneducated, and without skill in any art or science, does a great injury to mankind, as well as to his own family, for he defrauds the community of a useful citizen,, and bequeaths to it a nuisance.
Pàgina 16 - Not to know at large of things remote From use, obscure and subtile, but to know That which before us lies in daily life, Ts the prime
Pàgina 17 - of nature, the human faculties are substantially the same all over the world, and hence the best means for their development and growth in one place, must be substantially the best for their development and growth everywhere." Again he says: " If Prussia can pervert the benign influences of education to the support of arbitrary power,
Pàgina 48 - Enlist there ye poor wandering banditti; obey, work, suffer, abstain, as all of us have had to do; so shall you be useful in God's creation, so shall you be helped to gain a manful living for yourselves ; not otherwise than so Here is work for you; refuse to strike into it; shirk the heavy

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