Special Report of the Committee on Drawing on the Evening Drawing Schools

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Municipal Printing Office, 1905 - 110 páginas
 

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Página 49 - Likewise it was then generally agreed upon that our brother Philemon Porment shall be intreated to become scholemaster for the teaching and nourtering of children with us.
Página 66 - The advancement of the fine arts and of practical science will be readily recognized by you as worthy of the attention of a great and enlightened nation. I have directed that a comprehensive scheme shall be laid before you, having in view the promotion of these objects, towards which I invite your aid and co-operation.
Página 1 - 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 52 - A parent who wishes to give a child an education that shall fit him for active life, and shall serve as a foundation for eminence in his profession whether Mercantile or Mechanical, is under the necessity of giving him a different education from any which our public schools can now furnish. Hence, many children are separated from their parents and sent to private academies in this vicinity, to acquire that instruction which cannot be obtained at the public seminaries.
Página 66 - to inquire into the best means of extending a knowledge of the arts, and of the principles of design, among the people (especially the manufacturing population) of the country; also to inquire into the constitution, management, and effects of institutions connected with the arts.
Página 51 - The mode of education now adopted, and the branches of knowledge that are taught at our English grammar schools, are not sufficiently extensive nor otherwise calculated to bring the powers of the mind into operation nor to qualify a youth to fill usefully and respectably many of those stations, both public and private, in which he may be placed...
Página 71 - Winstead lies down in the west country of Devon. To it the South Kensington authorities in 1903 sent a choice, but not extensive, collection of textiles, laces and other similar art products. They were on view before the students of that little art class, maintained under the picturesque roof of one of those tiny cottages. In the fall in London, at the exhibition of students...
Página 66 - ... Against no other species of property have so many attacks been made. We have no space in this paper to go further back than the year 1865, when the subject of illegal enclosures of commons around the Metropolis, having been for some time prominently attracting public attention, a Select Committee of the House of Commons was appointed " to inquire into the best means of preserving for the public use, the forests, commons, and open spaces in and around the metropolis.
Página 59 - While our educational leaders are talking of culture, the development of personality, etc., as the end and aim of education, the great majority of those who pass under the tuition of the school regard it only as a narrowly practical tool with which to get bread and butter enough to eke out a restricted life. If we were to conceive our educational end and aim in a less exclusive way, if we were to introduce into educational processes the activities which appeal to those whose dominant interest is...

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