Reports of the Selectmen and Other Officers ... Also, the Report of the School Committee ...1861 |
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... , call the conscience , the common sense , into lively and con- trolling activity , so promoting the love of study , the practice of the virtues ; habits that shall accompany the children outwards into 3 SUPERINTENDENT'S REPORT. ...
... , call the conscience , the common sense , into lively and con- trolling activity , so promoting the love of study , the practice of the virtues ; habits that shall accompany the children outwards into 3 SUPERINTENDENT'S REPORT. ...
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... lively and profitable in consequence : information has been methodized in the mind , a greater accuracy ensured , a firmer grasp of subjects , and pleas- ure associated with study . The text has been taken as a thread for conversation ...
... lively and profitable in consequence : information has been methodized in the mind , a greater accuracy ensured , a firmer grasp of subjects , and pleas- ure associated with study . The text has been taken as a thread for conversation ...
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... 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 my eyes , and took captive all that was best in me ; I read it again and again ...
... 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 my eyes , and took captive all that was best in me ; I read it again and again ...
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... lively discourse . As soon as he is able to use it , put a little Thesaurus or word - book into his hands to assist him in forming his vocabulary . Put one at his desk at school to be used for spelling and defining . Let him write his ...
... lively discourse . As soon as he is able to use it , put a little Thesaurus or word - book into his hands to assist him in forming his vocabulary . Put one at his desk at school to be used for spelling and defining . Let him write his ...
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... lively university whence our children graduate , getting here the best part of their discipline ; —which is liable of course like all free things to be perverted to uses the worst . Society , -the power of persons and spells of company ...
... lively university whence our children graduate , getting here the best part of their discipline ; —which is liable of course like all free things to be perverted to uses the worst . Society , -the power of persons and spells of company ...
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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...