Prize Essay and Lectures, Delivered Before the American Institute of Instruction ... Including the Journal of Proceedings, Volume 49American Institute of Instruction, 1879 List of members included in each volume, beginning with 1891. |
De dentro do livro
Página 7
... never grow old except as the ideas they represent become effete , and the issues on which they live become dead as the buried Past . For good reasons such institutions as this should never grow old ; an eternal youth should be theirs ...
... never grow old except as the ideas they represent become effete , and the issues on which they live become dead as the buried Past . For good reasons such institutions as this should never grow old ; an eternal youth should be theirs ...
Página 8
... never in their history has such a gathering so worthily connected itself with the most inspiring scenes of Nature for the pur- pose of learning her secrets and of drawing from them the strength and the inspiration for duty which will ...
... never in their history has such a gathering so worthily connected itself with the most inspiring scenes of Nature for the pur- pose of learning her secrets and of drawing from them the strength and the inspiration for duty which will ...
Página 26
... never making a mistake . You may wonder who these teachers can be . Look around you at our grand mountains and their lofty peaks , and you will find teachers unequalled outside of New Hampshire . Address by E. Conant , State ...
... never making a mistake . You may wonder who these teachers can be . Look around you at our grand mountains and their lofty peaks , and you will find teachers unequalled outside of New Hampshire . Address by E. Conant , State ...
Página 28
... never need fear for our com- mon schools . Another reason which keeps up the prestige of our common schools is our excellent Normal schools , of which we have five . The graduates from these institutions are in great demand , as ...
... never need fear for our com- mon schools . Another reason which keeps up the prestige of our common schools is our excellent Normal schools , of which we have five . The graduates from these institutions are in great demand , as ...
Página 31
... never disown , and an obligation which it will never dishonor . Indiana and her sister States of the central West propose to stand by the American school system in its integrity . It is true that their school systems are just now ...
... never disown , and an obligation which it will never dishonor . Indiana and her sister States of the central West propose to stand by the American school system in its integrity . It is true that their school systems are just now ...
Outras edições - Ver todos
Prize Essay and Lectures, Delivered Before the American ..., Volume 25,Edição 1 American Institute of Instruction Visualização completa - 1855 |
Termos e frases comuns
Alexander Melville Bell alphabet American Institute articulation Association better Bicknell Boston Bowdoin College certificates character child Chinese spoken language common schools Conn Constitution culture demand disjoint education district duty educa England English English language examination experience gift girls give grade grammar Hampshire high school honor important Institute of Instruction intelligent invention John Eaton Kindergarten knowledge labor learned magnet Mass Massachusetts meeting ment mental methods of teaching mind Mount Washington mountains natural method never normal schools object Ohio organs persons phonetic political present President principles Prof profession pronunciation public schools pupils question Rhode Island scholars school committees school system school-room social sound Spelling Reform square miles success superintendent supervision taught teachers territory tion town universal visible speech W. D. Whitney women words young
Passagens mais conhecidas
Página 10 - Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours ; And ask them, what report they bore to heaven ; And how they might have borne more welcome news.
Página 81 - I see one vast Confederation stretching from the frozen North in unbroken line to the glowing South, and from the wild billows of the Atlantic, westward to the calmer waters of the Pacific main — and I see one people, and one law, and one language, and one faith, and over all that wide continent, the home of freedom, and a refuge for the oppressed of every race and of every clime.
Página 114 - Individuals who, without the aid of knowledge, would have been condemned to perpetual inferiority of condition, and subjected to all the evils of want and poverty, rise to competence and independence by the uplifting power of education.
Página 81 - I have another and a far brighter vision before my gaze. It may be but a vision, but I will cherish it. I see one vast confederation stretching from the frozen North in unbroken line to the glowing South, and from the wild billows of the Atlantic westward to the calmer waters of the Pacific main, — and I see one people, and one language, and one law, and one faith, and, over all that wide continent, the home of freedom, and a refuge for the oppressed of every race and of every clime.
Página 99 - That it is not competent under the Constitution and the law, as it existed at the date of the passage of said act, to go into evidence aliunde the papers opened by the President of the Senate in the presence of the two Houses...
Página 140 - A more lying, roundabout, puzzle-headed delusion than that by which we confuse the clear instincts of truth in our accursed system of spelling was never concocted by the father of falsehood.
Página 140 - How can a system of education flourish that begins by so monstrous a falsehood, which the sense of hearing suffices to contradict ? No wonder that the hornbook is the despair of mothers ! " From this instance, the reader will perceive that Dr.
Página 113 - In great establishments, and among large bodies of laboring men, where all services are rated according to their pecuniary value, where there are no extrinsic circumstances to bind a man down to a fixed position, after he has shown a capacity to rise above it — where, indeed, men pass by each other, ascending or descending in their grades of labor, just as easily and certainly as particles of water of different degrees of temperature glide by each other...
Página 109 - The first of these is the influence of slavery, which once permeated the entire country with degrading views of labor. It will take a hundred years to recover from the influence of the slave code with its "mudsill
Página 143 - The scool board for London took up the matter and issued a circular asking others to unite in an address to the Education Department in favor of it. The Liverpool and Bradford boards had acted before, and more than a hundred other boards returnd favorabl replies.