Letters to the Hon. William Prescott, LL.D., on the Free Schools of New England: With Remarks Upon the Principles of InstructionCummings, Hilliard & Company, 1824 - 123 sider |
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... advantage , which we may happen to possess in this respect , I should spare myself the useless task of saying more upon the subject . No trait in the character of our legisla- tion , deserves more admiration , than the liberal and high ...
... advantage , which we may happen to possess in this respect , I should spare myself the useless task of saying more upon the subject . No trait in the character of our legisla- tion , deserves more admiration , than the liberal and high ...
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... advantage of the Collidge . " These evidences of early attention to Harvard Col- lege are cited , not because it is that , in which I am * Haz . Hist . Coll . vol . ii . p . 107 . + Hist . Coll . vol . ii . p . 85 . Hist . Coll . vol ...
... advantage of the Collidge . " These evidences of early attention to Harvard Col- lege are cited , not because it is that , in which I am * Haz . Hist . Coll . vol . ii . p . 107 . + Hist . Coll . vol . ii . p . 85 . Hist . Coll . vol ...
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... advantages of their experience , and of living in a more enlightened age , though we might wish to change some shades in their motives , we could hard- ly hope , on the whole , to make more noble exertions for the promotion of the same ...
... advantages of their experience , and of living in a more enlightened age , though we might wish to change some shades in their motives , we could hard- ly hope , on the whole , to make more noble exertions for the promotion of the same ...
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... who are to enjoy the advantages resulting from them . As the first object in the formation of every government is , to provide for its own preservation ; and as the general P diffusion of knowledge and virtue is the most effec- 18.
... who are to enjoy the advantages resulting from them . As the first object in the formation of every government is , to provide for its own preservation ; and as the general P diffusion of knowledge and virtue is the most effec- 18.
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... advantages for education adequate to prepare young men for all the professions . The means of education are not yet to be compared with those of New England ; but the time is not far distant , when in the progress of events , we may ...
... advantages for education adequate to prepare young men for all the professions . The means of education are not yet to be compared with those of New England ; but the time is not far distant , when in the progress of events , we may ...
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abstract academies acquired adopted advantages afford aforesaid application appropriations arithme arrangement attention better branches called character child ciples class of schools Colburn colony Connecticut connexion constitute Constitution of Massachusetts dollars elementary encouragement England English language essential examples exertions facts free schools fund geography give grammar schools hundred families important improvement inductive institutions interest intuitive knowledge ject knowledge land language Latin languages liberal manner Massachusetts Bay mathematicks means ment method never object operation particular patronage peculiar Pestalozzi philosophical ples Plymouth portunities powers precisely present primary schools principles of instruction proportion Province Charter province of Main publick pupil qualifications question reason rience rivers Rule of Three school books school master schoolmaster selectmen small numbers studies system of Arithmetick taught teach teachers thing tion town or district whole WILLIAM PRESCOTT Yale College young learner young mind youth
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Side 49 - ... against immorality and crime. We hope for a security, beyond the law, and above the law, in the prevalence of enlightened and well-principled moral sentiment.
Side 25 - ... the principles of piety, justice, and a sacred regard to truth, love to their country, humanity and universal benevolence, sobriety, industry and frugality, chastity, moderation and temperance, and those other virtues which are the ornament of human society, and the basis upon which a republican constitution is founded...
Side 9 - ... and It is further ordered, That where any town shall increase to the number of one hundred families or householders, they shall set up a grammar school, the master thereof being able to instruct youth so far as they may be fitted for the university...
Side 48 - For the purpose of public instruction, we hold every man subject to taxation in proportion to his property, and we look not to the question, whether he himself have, or have not, children to be benefited by the education for which he pays.
Side 9 - It being one chief project of that old deluder, Satan, to keep men from the knowledge of the scriptures, as in former times by keeping them in an unknown tongue, so in these latter times by persuading from the use of tongues, that so at least the true sense and meaning of the original might be clouded by false glosses of saint-seeming deceivers, that learning may not be buried in the grave of our fathers in the church and commonwealth, the Lord assisting our endeavors.
Side 10 - ... not to admit or suffer any such to be continued in the office or place of teaching, educating or instructing...
Side 37 - ... it shall be the duty of legislatures and magistrates, in all future periods of this commonwealth, to cherish the interests of literature and the sciences, and all seminaries of them; especially the university at Cambridge, public [Art. 155 schools and grammar schools in the towns...
Side 5 - English tongue, and knowledge of the capital laws, upon penalty of twenty shillings for each neglect therein ; also, that all masters of families do, once a week, at least, catechise their children and servants in the grounds and principles of religion, and if any be unable to do so much...
Side 5 - It is ordered that the selectmen of every town, in the several precincts and quarters where they dwell, shall have a vigilant eye over their brethren and neighbors, to see first that none of them shall suffer so much barbarism in any of their families, as not to endeavor to teach, by themselves or others, their children and apprentices, so much learning, as may enable them perfectly to read the English tongue, and knowledge of the capital laws: upon penalty of twenty shillings for each neglect therein.