Abstracts of Massachusetts School Returns1846 |
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Pàgina v
... studies . Indeed , scarcely a case of difficulty can arise , or threaten to arise , either in regard to instruction or discipline , in which a teacher could fail to obtain guidance or counsel from the excellent materials contained in ...
... studies . Indeed , scarcely a case of difficulty can arise , or threaten to arise , either in regard to instruction or discipline , in which a teacher could fail to obtain guidance or counsel from the excellent materials contained in ...
Pàgina 3
... studies , even for children . They may be made to conceive the grand image of the globe , with its continents and islands , its oceans and lakes , swinging unsupported in space ; spinning round upon its axis , while it rushes forward in ...
... studies , even for children . They may be made to conceive the grand image of the globe , with its continents and islands , its oceans and lakes , swinging unsupported in space ; spinning round upon its axis , while it rushes forward in ...
Pàgina 4
... studies . The art of reading well is a beautiful and important one ; but it must not be forgotten that it is a means to an end , and not the great end itself . The first ob- ject in teaching reading should be , to make the scholar so ...
... studies . The art of reading well is a beautiful and important one ; but it must not be forgotten that it is a means to an end , and not the great end itself . The first ob- ject in teaching reading should be , to make the scholar so ...
Pàgina 7
... studies be as inter- esting as possible , and let the time for studying them be postponed to a later pe- riod of the pupil's school life , to the period when his moral sense is developed , and when he understands the value of time . We ...
... studies be as inter- esting as possible , and let the time for studying them be postponed to a later pe- riod of the pupil's school life , to the period when his moral sense is developed , and when he understands the value of time . We ...
Pàgina 9
... studies they pursue . In this respect , there is a most striking difference in our schools . In some , the pupils seem to understand what they have studied , and to know how to apply it to the cases which may arise ; in others , they ...
... studies they pursue . In this respect , there is a most striking difference in our schools . In some , the pupils seem to understand what they have studied , and to know how to apply it to the cases which may arise ; in others , they ...
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Aggregate of months Aggregate paid amount appropriated attend School Average wages paid believe BERKSHIRE COUNTY better black-board board and fuel board per month Braintree character child commencement Commonwealth coöperation corporal punishment COUNTY discipline duty emies employed evil examination exercise feel female teachers Foxborough give grammar HAMPDEN COUNTY happy Hubbardston important improvement influence instruction intellectual interest knowledge labor Males manner means ment mind moral opinion paid for tui parents past persons Phillipston present principles Private Schools proper prudential committee Public Schools pupils qualifications questions raised respect school committee SCHOOL COMMITTEE.-John SCHOOL RETURNS schoolhouses schoolroom secure SELECTION FROM REPORT SELECTIONS FROM PRINTED Southborough spirit studies success summer taught teach teachers thing tion town value of board wages paid Average West Boylston West Newbury Westhampton whole winter schools WORCESTER COUNTY words young youth
Passatges populars
Pàgina 301 - 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, justice, and a sacred regard to truth, love to their country, humanity and universal benevolence, sobriety, industry and frugality, chastity, moderation...
Pàgina 23 - And oh ! may Heaven their simple lives prevent From luxury's contagion, weak and vile ! Then, howe'er crowns and coronets be rent, A virtuous populace may rise the while, And stand a wall of fire around their much-loved Isle. O Thou! who pour'd the patriotic tide That stream'd thro...
Pàgina 63 - 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...
Pàgina 167 - Sir," said I, after puzzling a long time over "more requiring more and less requiring less" — "will you tell me why I sometimes multiply the second and third terms together and divide by the first — and at other times multiply the first and second and divide by the third?
Pàgina 214 - There is no straw given unto thy servants, and they say to us. Make brick: and, behold, thy servants are beaten; but the fault is in thine own people.
Pàgina 50 - The object is, to give to children resources that will endure as long as life endures, — habits that time will ameliorate. not destroy,— occupations that will render sickness tolerable, solitude pleasant, age venerable, life more dignified and useful, and therefore death less terrible...
Pàgina 301 - ... 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...
Pàgina 312 - Human happiness has no perfect security but freedom; freedom, none but virtue; virtue, none but knowledge ; and neither freedom, nor virtue, nor knowledge has any vigor, or immortal hope, except in the principles of the Christian faith, and in the sanctions of the Christian religion.
Pàgina 214 - ... and increase the usefulness of said schools ; which report shall be read in open town meeting, in February, March, or April, in each year, or be printed and distributed for the use of the inhabitants...
Pàgina 61 - In a wisely governed school of this description, the manners of the boys are softened and their minds refined, while the girls are placed under that measure of restraint which conduces to self-respect, watchfulness, and dignity of character. Besides, both sexes become acquainted with the good qualities of each other's minds and hearts. The friendships which exist among them are more likely to be founded upon esteem, upon a perception of kindness, of honor, of scholarship, and such like virtues in...