Documentary History of Education in Upper Canada, Volume 23

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Warwick bros. & Rutter, printers [etc. ], 1908
 

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Página 272 - The voluntary outpouring of the public feeling, made to-day, from the North to the South, and from the East to the West, proves this sentiment to be both just and natural.
Página 4 - ... the endowment, support, and maintenance of at least one college, where the leading object shall be, without excluding other scientific and classical studies, and including military tactics, to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts, in such manner as the Legislatures of the States may respectively prescribe, in order to promote the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes in the several pursuits and professions in life.
Página 227 - No new schoolhouse shall be built except according to a plan approved by the board of school visitors and by the building committee of such district, nor at an expense exceeding the sum which the district may appropriate therefor.
Página 212 - We think it established that the study of natural science develops, better than any other studies, the observing faculties; disciplines the intellect by teaching induction as well as deduction; supplies a useful balance to the studies of language and mathematics, and provides much instruction of great value for the occupations of after-life.
Página 240 - ... schools are instituted, it would be difficult to conceive of a more diverting farce than an ordinary session of a large public school, whose chaotic and discordant elements have not been reduced to system by a proper classification.
Página 4 - Congress, the proceeds from the sale of these lands to be used for "the endowment, support and maintenance of at least one college, where the leading object shall be, without excluding other scientific and classical studies and including military tactics, to teach. such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts...
Página 213 - 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 231 - The germ of this system in Prussia is found in a decree of Frederic II. in 1763: "We will that all our subjects, parents, guardians, and masters, send to school those children for whom they are responsible, boys and girls, from their fifth year to the age of fourteen.
Página 277 - ... be suitable to their years and capacities ; and they shall have power in their discretion to bind out the said children with their consent as apprentices or servants during their minority...
Página 239 - ... developed and illustrated, and additional information imparted, and the mind of the teacher brought in direct contact with the mind of each pupil, to arouse,' interest, and direct its opening powers ; instead of all this and more, the brief period passed in recitation, consists, on the part of...

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