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Página 221 - A general diffusion of knowledge and intelligence being essential to the preservation of the rights and liberties of the people, the Legislature shall encourage by all suitable means the promotion of intellectual, scientific, moral, and agricultural improvement.
Página 42 - Rome through the two dead languages, Latin and Greek ; for the evolution of the civilization in which we live and move and have our being, issued through Greece and Rome on its way to us.
Página 36 - It is our policy rather to develop ability than to give exhaustive Information. The printed page is the mighty Alladin's lamp which gives to the meanest citizen the power to lay a spell on time and space." The teachers and the public librarian must strike hands in the matter of selecting books to be ordered. The librarian should be given extended powers in all matters of administration and then held for results.
Página 445 - GENTLEMEN— I respectfully submit the following report of the business of this office, for the year ending December 31st, 1896.
Página 221 - The Board of President and Directors of the St. Louis Public Schools, 77 Mo., 484; Collins v.
Página 29 - ... the plain. It is but a part of art that can be taught ; the artist needs it all. Who knows it half, speaks much, and is always wrong ; who knows it wholly, inclines to act, and speaks seldom or late. The former have no secrets and no force : the instruction they can give is like baked bread, savory and satisfying for a single day ; but flour cannot be sown, and seed-corn ought not to be ground.
Página 41 - London snobbery that patronizingly, talks of the education of the lower "classes" does not know that the industrial civilization it affects to admire is an instrument that only democracy can wield. Leave out the humanities from that education and you leave out the culture that can guide its course, and communism and socialism and abstract theories will find their way quickly into the heads of the laboring classes. No merely prescriptive education...
Página 41 - Not merely natural philosophy, chemistry, mathematics and biology must be studied, but likewise the science of society and the state, of art, religion and philosophy, in all their phases. The great educators of the race Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, and Goethe, Plato, Aristotle, Leibnitz, and Newton - these must be made accessible to the people. Each child must be waited on by the institutions of man and invited to see the spectacle spread out before him from the lofty summit of...
Página 41 - ... principles of natural science and be capable of applying these in mechanic inventions, even then it is not at its summit of realization. It will stop at nothing short of the spiritual culture that makes it alike directive and governing in the sphere of mind, the realm of social, moral and intellectual existence. If the monarchies of Europe think to put off the people with mere polytechnic and industrial education they will find that they have fostered a directive power that will grope for and...
Página 355 - To the board of education of the city of St. Louis. GENTLEMEN : In accordance with the instructions of the board at !ts October meeting (see Pr.

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