An Appeal in Behalf of Common Schools in IllinoisState Register Job Office, 1848 - 13 sider |
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ability action attention BEHALF OF COMMON cause of popular circular citizens classification of pupils compelled condition correct report county school commissioner county school officers destiny DISTRICTS AND COUNTIES dition duties which devolve educa efficiency eral establishment and perfection EX-OFFICIO STATE SUPERINTENDENT female teachers fifty-seven counties fountain of intellectual FREE COMMON SCHOOLS frequent meetings GUTMAN LIBRARY HARVARD UNIVERSITY HUNDRED AND FIFTY Illinois importance influence information and suggestions intelligence interest large number Legislature limited compensation manifest moral necessary NUMBER OF CHILDREN number of school organization of school parents peculiar qualifications pecuniary perfection of schools permitted to urge philanthropist popular education predecessor present promptness proper age proper organization properly public instruction public schools quired render respective counties responsibility devolves school districts school fund school houses school law school money Secretary six thousand SPRINGFIELD SUPERINTENDENT OF COMMON system of schools thousand two hundred tion of teachers township uniform unrestrained access zeal zealous efforts
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Side 7 - Board, collect information of the actual condition and efficiency of the Common Schools, and other means of popular education, and diffuse as widely as possible throughout every part of the Commonwealth, information of the most approved and successful methods of arranging the studies, and conducting the education of the young, to the end that all children in this Commonwealth, who depend upon Common Schools for instruction, may have the best education which those schools can be made to impart.
Side 7 - ... as experience may suggest, upon the condition and efficiency of our system of popular education, and the most practicable means of improving the same.
Side 13 - ... that Almighty Being whose power regulates the destiny of nations, whose blessings have been so conspicuously dispensed to this rising Republic, and to whom we are bound to address our devout gratitude for the past, as well as our fervent supplications and best hopes for the future.
Side 11 - Two-thirds at least of all the schools which I visited, would have been better taught by female teachers, who could have been employed at half the compensation actually paid to the male teachers, and thus the length of the winter school prolonged on an average of two months. Convinced as I am from many years observation in public schools, that these institutions will never exert the influence they should on the manners and morals of the children educated in them, till a larger number of well trained...
Side 12 - ... professional teachers are exposed, will be withstood and obviated. The sympathies of a common pursuit, the interchange of ideas, the discussion of topics which concern their common advancement, the necessity of extending their reading and inquiries, and of cultivating the power and habit of written and oral expression, all these things will attach teachers to each other, elevate their own character and attainments, and the social and pecuniary estimate of the profession.
Side 6 - The. schools established must be at once good and cheap, — good enough for the children of those who know what a good school is, and cheap enough to be within the reach of the poor — otherwise they can never become public or common schools, in the highest sense, where the children of all, rich and poor, the more and the less favored in outward circumstances, are welcomed to the same fountain of intellectual and moral life...
Side 6 - State, such provision to be efficient must connect every citizen with its management, must be adapted to the local circumstances and wants of different towns and neighborhoods ; and by enlisting the vigilance of tax-payers and parents, be surrounded 'With the largest possible amount of watchfulness, interest and affection. The schools established must be at once good and...
Side 12 - ... such, had general supervision of its common schools. He was to advise and assist the township trustees in the performance of their duties. He was to write them lettters, giving advice on the best manner of conducting common schools, constructing schoolhouses, and procuring competent teachers. He was to recommend the most approved textbooks, maps, charts, and apparatus, " and shall urge uniformity in the use of the same, as well as the manner of conducting common schools throughout the county.
Side 4 - The great fundamental principle of this action should be, that our schools be free to every child (native or adopted) in Illinois, free as the genial showers and sunshine of heaven.
Side 10 - ... first winter, or from which returns were received, out of Providence, and the primary departments of a few large central districts, I found but six female teachers ; and including the whole State, and excepting the districts referred to, there cannot have been more than twice that number employed. This is one evidence of the want of prudence in applying the school funds of the districts, and of the low appreciation of the peculiar talents...