Our National System of Education: An EssayDodd, Mead and Company, 1877 - 134 sider |
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... Proposals relating to the Education of Youth . " This he distributed gratis among the principal inhabitants 66 1 See Appendix A. of his neighborhood . A subscription was set on foot OUR NATIONAL SYSTEM OF EDUCATION . 9.
... Proposals relating to the Education of Youth . " This he distributed gratis among the principal inhabitants 66 1 See Appendix A. of his neighborhood . A subscription was set on foot OUR NATIONAL SYSTEM OF EDUCATION . 9.
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... Appendix B. 2 Some of the normal colleges are magnificent institutions . In the Female College occupying the block on Sixty - eighth Street and Fourth Avenue , about eighteen hundred young ladies receive a colle- giate education ...
... Appendix B. 2 Some of the normal colleges are magnificent institutions . In the Female College occupying the block on Sixty - eighth Street and Fourth Avenue , about eighteen hundred young ladies receive a colle- giate education ...
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... . In words spoken by George Washington to both houses . of the first Congress of the United States , " To the 1 See Appendix C. security of a free Constitution it " [ knowledge ] OUR NATIONAL SYSTEM OF EDUCATION . 27.
... . In words spoken by George Washington to both houses . of the first Congress of the United States , " To the 1 See Appendix C. security of a free Constitution it " [ knowledge ] OUR NATIONAL SYSTEM OF EDUCATION . 27.
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... almost or quite impossible . Many years ago , Chief Justice Marshall estimated that the cotton - gin , invented by Whitney , 1 See Appendix D. - - a young man who studied in one of 32 OUR NATIONAL SYSTEM OF EDUCATION .
... almost or quite impossible . Many years ago , Chief Justice Marshall estimated that the cotton - gin , invented by Whitney , 1 See Appendix D. - - a young man who studied in one of 32 OUR NATIONAL SYSTEM OF EDUCATION .
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... poor man's wisdom is despised , and his words are not heard . . . . Wisdom is better than weapons of war . " - ECCLES . ix . 13-18 . See Appendix E. In the year 1861 occurred the memorable war in the 40 OUR NATIONAL SYSTEM OF EDUCATION .
... poor man's wisdom is despised , and his words are not heard . . . . Wisdom is better than weapons of war . " - ECCLES . ix . 13-18 . See Appendix E. In the year 1861 occurred the memorable war in the 40 OUR NATIONAL SYSTEM OF EDUCATION .
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adopted American statesmen Appendix army Astor Library attention battle of Jena Bible Bismark blessings cause of education census of 1870 cent Charles Loring Brace Christian Church citizens colleges colony colored Commissioner of Education common schools Congress Constitution Cyclopædia earnest educa Emperor England English essay essayist established Europe extent France free schools Germany honor hundred thousand illiteracy illiterate inhabitants institutions instruction intelligence interesting Italy John Adams John Eaton Kenyon College knowledge land learning legislature letters liberty Massachusetts Mexico millions Mohammedan Napoleon nation noble Peabody population prisoners Prussia public libraries public schools Queen read and write received religion religious Report republic Roman-Catholic clergy Samuel Adams scholars school-instruction school-laws school-system Seward soldiers Spain speech teach territory Thomas Jefferson thousand dollars tion unable to read United United-States Commissioner universal education Virginia W. E. Gladstone wisdom wise women York youth
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Side 15 - And for extending the fundamental principles of civil and religious liberty, which form the basis whereon these republics, their laws and constitutions are erected; to fix and establish those principles as the basis of all laws, constitutions and governments, which forever hereafter shall be formed in the said territory...
Side 100 - The last right we shall mention, regards the freedom of the press. The importance of this consists, besides the advancement of truth, science, morality, and arts in general, in its diffusion of liberal sentiments on the administration of Government...
Side 16 - Nor am I less persuaded that you will agree with me in opinion that there is nothing which can better deserve your patronage than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.
Side 98 - I must declare and avow, that in all my reading and observation — and it has been my favorite study — I have read Thucydides and have studied and admired the master states of the world — that for solidity of reasoning, force of sagacity, and wisdom of conclusion, under such a complication of difficult circumstances, no nation or body of men can stand in preference to the general congress at Philadelphia.
Side 42 - I seen also under the sun, and it seemed great unto me: there was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it: now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man. Then said I, "Wisdom is better than strength: nevertheless the poor man's wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard.
Side 11 - ... this was the mother of all the North American subscription libraries, now so numerous. It is become a great thing itself, and continually increasing. These libraries have improved the general conversation of the Americans, made the common tradesmen and farmers as intelligent as most gentlemen from other countries, and perhaps have contributed in some degree to the stand so generally made throughout the colonies in defence of their privileges.
Side 72 - It has failed to establish any public system of education, although possessed of almost boundless resources (the public domain) and although it is an axiom in political science, that unless a people are educated and enlightened it is idle to expect the continuance of civil liberty, or the capacity for self-government.
Side 133 - So that if the invention of the ship was thought so noble, which carrieth riches and commodities from place to place, and consociateth the most remote regions in participation of their fruits, how much more are letters to be magnified, which as ships pass through the vast seas of time, and make ages so distant to participate of the wisdom, illuminations, and inventions, the one of the other?
Side 22 - If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
Side 24 - I can not presume it to be unseasonable to invite your attention to the advantages of superadding to the means of education provided by the several States a seminary of learning...