Reports of the Selectmen and Other Officers ... Also, the Report of the School Committee ...1861 |
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Side 15
... fancy and heart of the young , that its homely sense so Saxon and so strong its lively images may dwell with them as long as they live . My indebtedness to it is great . It was the first classic next the New Testament , that opened upon ...
... fancy and heart of the young , that its homely sense so Saxon and so strong its lively images may dwell with them as long as they live . My indebtedness to it is great . It was the first classic next the New Testament , that opened upon ...
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... fancy and the heart . I never visit a school without coveting a life for its opportunities for enjoying the pastime of telling tales , every faculty and affection finding free scope in this play of all delights . The old memories waken ...
... fancy and the heart . I never visit a school without coveting a life for its opportunities for enjoying the pastime of telling tales , every faculty and affection finding free scope in this play of all delights . The old memories waken ...
Side 17
... fancy fashioning facts to please and harmonize the mind , and graceful exercises the body ; by which means he sought to draw the young to the practice of health and virtue , to genius and good be- havior unconsciously . In his Laws he ...
... fancy fashioning facts to please and harmonize the mind , and graceful exercises the body ; by which means he sought to draw the young to the practice of health and virtue , to genius and good be- havior unconsciously . In his Laws he ...
Side 22
... fancy and the heart ; they may play the part of the school of virtue or of scandal , as well or ill chosen . The streets are the gymnasia of the young , the world they live in largely , the widest , the freest range they know and are ...
... fancy and the heart ; they may play the part of the school of virtue or of scandal , as well or ill chosen . The streets are the gymnasia of the young , the world they live in largely , the widest , the freest range they know and are ...
Side 23
... fancy , or they will not listen long ; his the fault , theirs the misfortune . He does not play well on his instrument , the human heart , if he lack fancy , enthusiasm , health , humor ; - " if he pipe ever so hard , they dance not ...
... fancy , or they will not listen long ; his the fault , theirs the misfortune . He does not play well on his instrument , the human heart , if he lack fancy , enthusiasm , health , humor ; - " if he pipe ever so hard , they dance not ...
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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...