Reports of the Selectmen and Other Officers ... Also, the Report of the School Committee ...1861 |
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... recitation and apparatus room . As yet , however , there is but lit- tle apparatus , and the Committee desire to recommend the appropria- tion of not less than two hundred dollars for the purchase of suitable apparatus for the High ...
... recitation and apparatus room . As yet , however , there is but lit- tle apparatus , and the Committee desire to recommend the appropria- tion of not less than two hundred dollars for the purchase of suitable apparatus for the High ...
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... RECITATIONS . I have witnessed a growing perception on the part of teachers and pupils of the true uses of books and of ... recitation ; mostly sound and parrotry , a repeating by rote not by heart unmeaning sounds from the memory and no ...
... RECITATIONS . I have witnessed a growing perception on the part of teachers and pupils of the true uses of books and of ... recitation ; mostly sound and parrotry , a repeating by rote not by heart unmeaning sounds from the memory and no ...
Side 10
... recite out of their books , and then to pour from a glowing mind a flood of light over the page , and create the subject anew before their eyes , inspiring them with the soul of creation . We want living minds to quicken and inform ...
... recite out of their books , and then to pour from a glowing mind a flood of light over the page , and create the subject anew before their eyes , inspiring them with the soul of creation . We want living minds to quicken and inform ...
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... recite from their text books , it is not quite kind to put questions about things outside , or to expect them to find the places in the town named and delineated in the little map of Concord hanging on the wall . They probably know the ...
... recite from their text books , it is not quite kind to put questions about things outside , or to expect them to find the places in the town named and delineated in the little map of Concord hanging on the wall . They probably know the ...
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... Recitations . School Checks . Modes of Correction . Text Books . Conversation . Most of the teachers usually took part in these discussions . MONTHLY ROUNDS . No one , however favored by long residence and the advantages of birth , can ...
... Recitations . School Checks . Modes of Correction . Text Books . Conversation . Most of the teachers usually took part in these discussions . MONTHLY ROUNDS . No one , however favored by long residence and the advantages of birth , can ...
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Ages Arithmetic Barrett Barrett's Mill Bateman's Pond books and incidentals boys Brown Catharine Catullus Charles chil child citizens classes Concord conversation culture Dakin Dillingham districts dren East Primary East Quarter EPHRAIM W exercises F. B. SANBORN Factory Village fancy genius George gifts give grace Grammar gymnastics heart High School Hosmer interest Intermediate School John John Dowd Keyes learning lessons Library lively manners March Mary matter method Middlesex County mind Miss names Nathan Barrett nature Nine Acre Corner North Quarter parents persons Pilgrim's Progress Plato pleasure Plutarch Prescott present Primary School pupils Pythagoras Quarter School Recitation Reynolds Richard Barrett Sanborn scholars School Committee school houses school rooms SCHOOL.-MISS sense services on School SIMON BROWN songs soul spelling spirit Stowell Superintendent teacher teaching things thought tion Tom Brown Total cost town Unexpended balance virtue Walcott West Primary Wheeler young
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Side 8 - New occasions teach new duties ; Time makes ancient good uncouth ; They must upward still, and onward, who would keep abreast of Truth ; Lo, before us gleam her camp-fires ! we ourselves must Pilgrims be, Launch our Mayflower, and steer boldly through the desperate winter sea, Nor attempt the Future's portal with the Past's blood-rusted key.
Side 24 - First, young scholars make this calling their refuge ; yea, perchance, before they have taken any degree in the university, commence schoolmasters in the country, as if nothing else were required to set up this profession but only a rod and a ferula. Secondly, others who are able, use it only as a passage to better preferment, to patch the rents in their present fortune, till they can provide a. new one, and betake themselves to some more gainful calling.
Side 6 - I call therefore a complete and generous education, that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war.
Side 39 - The first object of a free people is the preservation of their liberty; and liberty is only to be preserved by maintaining constitutional restraints and just divisions of political power. Nothing is more deceptive or more dangerous than the pretence of a desire to simplify government. The simplest Governments are despotisms...
Side 24 - ... a passage to better preferment, to patch the rents in their present fortune till they can provide a new one, and betake themselves to some more gainful calling. Thirdly, they are disheartened from doing their best with the miserable reward which in some places they receive, being masters to the children and slaves to their parents. Fourthly, being grown rich, they grow negligent, and scorn to touch the school but by the proxy of an usher.
Side 24 - He is able, diligent and methodical in his teaching ; not leading them rather in a circle than forwards. He minces his precepts for children to swallow, hanging clogs on the nimbleness of his own soul, that his scholars may go along with him.
Side 24 - That schoolmaster deserves to be beaten himself, who beats nature in a boy for a fault. And I question whether all the whipping in the world can make their parts, which are naturally sluggish, rise one minute before the hour nature hath appointed.
Side 5 - ... of a better education, in extent and comprehension far more large, and yet of time far shorter, and of attainment far more certain, than hath been yet in practice.
Side 24 - Those that are ingenious and idle. These think, with the hare in the fable, that running with snails (so they count the rest of their schoolfellows) they shall come soon enough to the post, though sleeping a good while before their starting.
Side 24 - ... it, and scorns the late custom in some places of commuting whipping into money, and ransoming boys from the rod at a set price. If he hath a stubborn youth, correction-proof, he...