Annual Report of the Board of Education Together with the ... Annual Report of the Secretary of the Board, Volume 43

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Board of Education, 1880
1st-72nd include the annual report of the Secretary of the Board.
 

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Página 92 - A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy, or, perhaps, both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
Página 93 - ... it shall be the duty of legislatures and magistrates, in all future periods of this Commonwealth, to cherish the interests of literature and the sciences, and all seminaries of them; especially the university at Cambridge, public schools, and grammar schools in the towns; to encourage private societies and public institutions, rewards and immunities, for the promotion of agriculture, arts, sciences, commerce, trades, manufactures, and a natural history of the country; to countenance and inculcate...
Página 86 - When any scholar is able to read Tully, or such like classical Latin author, extempore, and make and speak true Latin in verse and prose suo (ut aiunt) Marte, and decline perfectly the paradigms of nouns and verbs in the Greek tongue, then may he be admitted into the college, nor shall any claim admission before such qualifications.
Página 93 - Wisdom, and knowledge, as well as virtue, diffused generally among the body of the people, being necessary for the preservation of their rights and liberties; and as these depend on spreading the opportunities and advantages of education in the various parts of the country, and among the different orders of the people, it shall be the duty of legislators and magistrates, in all future periods of this Commonwealth, to cherish the interests of literature and the sciences, and all seminaries of them;...
Página 91 - The instruction of the people in every kind of knowledge that can be of use to them in the practice of their moral duties as men, citizens, and Christians, and of their political and civil duties as members of society and freemen, ought to be the care of the public, and of all who have any share in the conduct of its affairs, in a manner that never yet has been practiced in any age or nation.
Página 281 - Any city or town may, and every city and town having more than ten thousand inhabitants shall, annually make provision for giving free instruction in industrial or mechanical drawing to persons over fifteen years of age, either in day or evening schools, under the direction of the school committee.
Página 272 - ... school-house is unfavorable to handicraft. The sort of workmen and the sort of work by which an artisan is surrounded during his period of training have even a larger share in determining the quality of his skill than the environment of a school in the formation of character. Workmen trained in any well known shop bear the unique inscription of that shop almost as plainly as the fabrics whose excellence gives at once its reputation to the shop and special value to the services of the men. Workmen...
Página 355 - ... has not maintained, for at least thirty-six weeks during the year, exclusive of vacations, a high school such as is mentioned therein; or which has not made the returns required...
Página 128 - The test in silent reading was applied by giving each pupil a printed narrative, which he read silently, and then wrote in his own language from memory. He was allowed about six minutes for the silent reading, and about an hour for the writing. The following is the narrative : — " Cyrus, the Persian prince, had many masters, -who endeavored to teach him every thing that was good ; and he was educated with several little boys about his own age.
Página 13 - ... 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...

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