The American Journal of Education, Volume 2Henry Barnard F.C. Brownell, 1856 |
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... public press , legislative halls , and city councils , which attended the establishment or improved organization and admin- istration of public schools in many of the principal cities and large towns ,? viz .: In New York , in 1806 , by ...
... public press , legislative halls , and city councils , which attended the establishment or improved organization and admin- istration of public schools in many of the principal cities and large towns ,? viz .: In New York , in 1806 , by ...
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... public schools and education generally , by an institution for the professional training of teachers : The establishment of the American Journal of Education , " in January , 1826 , and its monthly issue afterward of able discussions ...
... public schools and education generally , by an institution for the professional training of teachers : The establishment of the American Journal of Education , " in January , 1826 , and its monthly issue afterward of able discussions ...
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... schools at Hartford , in 1827 , and of the Pennsylvania Society for the promotion of public schools in 1828 : In these and other ways , this movement in behalf of the more general , tho rough , and complete education of the people , had ...
... schools at Hartford , in 1827 , and of the Pennsylvania Society for the promotion of public schools in 1828 : In these and other ways , this movement in behalf of the more general , tho rough , and complete education of the people , had ...
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Henry Barnard. X. MORAL AND RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS . REMARKS on the Address of the retiring President , being in order , PROF . CHARLES DAVIES , offered the following resolution : Resolved , That the sentiments expressed ...
Henry Barnard. X. MORAL AND RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS . REMARKS on the Address of the retiring President , being in order , PROF . CHARLES DAVIES , offered the following resolution : Resolved , That the sentiments expressed ...
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... public schools . After all , there is a better school than the public school , and that is the family , and I may add , the parochial or Sunday - school , the catachetical class , the Bible class . And although in our public schools , I ...
... public schools . After all , there is a better school than the public school , and that is the family , and I may add , the parochial or Sunday - school , the catachetical class , the Bible class . And although in our public schools , I ...
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Page 465 - If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
Page 409 - And it came to pass, as the camels had done drinking, that the man took a golden ear-ring of half a shekel weight, and two bracelets for her hands of ten shekels weight of gold...
Page 65 - Whether we provide for action or conversation, whether we wish to be useful or pleasing, the first requisite is the religious and moral knowledge of right and wrong ; the next is an acquaintance with the history of mankind, and with those examples which may be said to embody truth, and prove by events the reasonableness of opinions. Prudence and justice are virtues and excellences of all times and of all places. We are perpetually moralists ; but we are geometricians only by chance.
Page 73 - Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart: Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea: Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free, So didst thou travel on life's common way, In cheerful godliness; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay.
Page 617 - There it was that I found and visited the famous Galileo, grown old, a prisoner to the Inquisition, for thinking in astronomy otherwise than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought.
Page 64 - But when God commands to take the trumpet, and blow a dolorous or a jarring blast, it lies not in man's will what he shall say, or what he shall conceal.
Page 82 - The interim of unsweating themselves regularly, and convenient rest before meat, may, both with profit and delight, be taken up in recreating and composing their travailed...
Page 75 - And though a linguist should pride himself to have all the tongues that Babel cleft the world into, yet if he have not studied the solid things in them as well as the words and lexicons, he were nothing so much to be esteemed a learned man, as any yeoman or tradesman competently wise in his mother dialect only.
Page 59 - I call therefore a complete and generous education, that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war.
Page 60 - I endure to interrupt the pursuit of no less hopes than these, and leave a calm and pleasing solitariness, fed with cheerful and confident thoughts, to embark in a troubled sea of noises and hoarse disputes, put from beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies...