Report of the Board of Education ...

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1881

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Pagina 47 - But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee: Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee: and the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee.
Pagina 36 - A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.
Pagina 38 - Spirit must be our guide, our help, and support, keeping close to which, we shall increase in divine wisdom and sound judgment, and our hearts and understandings will be more and more opened and enlarged. The apostle Paul said, " When I was a child, I spake as a child, understood as a child, and thought as a child...
Pagina 53 - What would dare to molest him who might call, on every side, to thousands enriched by his bounty? He who knows not what it is to labor, knows not what it is to enjoy. The promise that he should be rewarded, was kept.
Pagina 43 - They all stand together like pillars in a cluster, the largest in the center, and that largest is agriculture.
Pagina 53 - ... principle of our forefathers, that every boy born into the world should be put in the way of maintaining himself in honest independence. No education which .does not make this its first aim is worth anything at all. There are but three ways of living, as some one has said ; by working, by begging, or by stealing. Those who do not work, disguise it in whatever pretty language we please, are doing one of the other two.
Pagina 209 - ... early mastery is here proved to be the surest way to facilitate all other and higher studies, fostering a love of school and fondness for books. Formerly, aversion to study and hatred of school were produced by tasking children in grammar and the higher studies before they could readily read them. Once implant a love of reading, and you have a strong pledge of scholarship through life. Let a child learn to read with facility and expression, and he has gained the key by which he can open any door...
Pagina 205 - ... whole community from which it gathers its scholars. From the want of a public school of this character, the children of such families as rely exclusively on the district school are isolated, and are condemned to an inferior education, both in quality and quantity ; they are cut off from the stimulus and sympathy which the mingling of children of the same age from different parts of the same community would impart.
Pagina 205 - ... more profitably pursued there than in public schools of a lower grade, or which gather their pupils from a more circumscribed territory, and as profitably as in any private school of the same pretensions. It must make a good education common in the highest and best sense of the word common — common because it is good enough for the best, and cheap enough for the poorest family in the community.
Pagina 55 - The pupils who luxuriate in the wealthiest homes of the city, would profit by one year in the country, with its peculiar work and play, its freer sports and wider range for rambles by the springs and brooks, the rivers and waterfalls, by the ponds and lakes, over the hills and plains, through the groves and forests ; in observing nature, searching for wild flowers and curious stones, learning to recognize the different trees by any...

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