Biennial Report, Superintendant of Public Instruction, State of Florida

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The Department., 1903
 

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Página 5 - If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
Página 151 - Our business in life is not to get ahead of other people, but to get ahead of ourselves. To break our own record; to outstrip our yesterdays by todays; to bear our trials more beautifully than...
Página 373 - I weigh my words when I say that if the nation could purchase a potential Watt, or Davy, or Faraday, at the cost of a hundred thousand pounds down, he would be dirt-cheap at the money. It is a mere commonplace and everyday piece of knowledge, that what these three men did has produced untold millions of wealth, in the narrowest economical sense of the word.
Página 364 - Each county shall be required to assess and collect annually for the support of the public free schools therein, a tax of not less than three (3) mills, nor more than ten (10) mills on the dollar on all taxable property in the same.
Página 161 - In any triangle, the square of a side opposite an acute angle is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides diminished by twice the product of one of those sides and the projection of the other side upon it.
Página 365 - June of each year, an itemized estimate showing the amount of money required for the maintenance of the necessary common schools of their county for the next ensuing scholastic year...
Página 151 - ... people, but to get ahead of ourselves. To break our own record; to outstrip our yesterdays by todays; to bear our trials more beautifully than we ever dreamed we could; to whip the tempter inside and out as we never whipped him before; to give as we never have given; to do our work with more force and a finer finish than ever — this is the true idea — to get ahead of ourselves.
Página 363 - The County Commissioners shall determine the amount to be raised for all county purposes, and shall enter upon their minutes the rate to be levied for each fund respectively, and shall ascertain the aggregate rate necessary to cover all such taxes...
Página 364 - To perform all acts reasonable and necessary for the promotion of the educational interests of the county and the general diffusion of knowledge among the citizens.
Página 158 - If thou art worn and hard beset With sorrows that thou wouldst forget, If thou wouldst read a lesson, that will keep Thy heart from fainting and thy soul from sleep, Go to the woods and hills ! — No tears Dim the sweet look that nature wears.

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