Education, Volume 44New England Publishing Company, 1924 |
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... persons up to the age of eighteen , whether employed or not , shall be required to attend the secondary schools not less than eight hours each week that the schools are in session . " 4 Everyone agrees that our great venture in ...
... persons up to the age of eighteen , whether employed or not , shall be required to attend the secondary schools not less than eight hours each week that the schools are in session . " 4 Everyone agrees that our great venture in ...
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... person is supposed to master his own lessons . No objection is ordinarily made to joint work in preparing lessons , unless it is written work , but if such is the case , the pupils are made to understand that help is dishonest . In the ...
... person is supposed to master his own lessons . No objection is ordinarily made to joint work in preparing lessons , unless it is written work , but if such is the case , the pupils are made to understand that help is dishonest . In the ...
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... Person- ally I am inclined to make a certain amount of regular work compulsory for admission to any grade in school above the sixth , with the provision that it be done in regular employ- ment for some person or firm other than the ...
... Person- ally I am inclined to make a certain amount of regular work compulsory for admission to any grade in school above the sixth , with the provision that it be done in regular employ- ment for some person or firm other than the ...
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... person can grow human and stay human ; and to be human , to stay human and sympathetic through all the daily toil and varied experience of any profession is positively the only way to be happy and useful and successful . Here is where ...
... person can grow human and stay human ; and to be human , to stay human and sympathetic through all the daily toil and varied experience of any profession is positively the only way to be happy and useful and successful . Here is where ...
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... person who uses it is too lazy or ignorant to find the reason for the child's indolence . Apparent laziness is due to ill health , poor per- sonal hygiene , feeble - mindedness , slumbering ambition , or , in a very few cases , what ...
... person who uses it is too lazy or ignorant to find the reason for the child's indolence . Apparent laziness is due to ill health , poor per- sonal hygiene , feeble - mindedness , slumbering ambition , or , in a very few cases , what ...
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Page 16 - ... whose mind is stored with a knowledge of the great and fundamental truths of Nature and of the laws of her operations; one who, no stunted ascetic, is full of life and fire, but whose passions are trained to come to heel by a vigorous will, the servant of a tender conscience; who has learned to love all beauty, whether of Nature or of art, to hate all vileness, and to respect others as himself.
Page 508 - Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates and men decay: Princes and lords may flourish or may fade; A breath can make them, as a breath has made; But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied.
Page 101 - DURING the first year that Mr. Wordsworth and I were neighbours, our conversations turned frequently on the two cardinal points of poetry, the power of exciting the sympathy of the reader by a faithful adherence to the truth of nature, and the power of giving the interest of novelty by the modifying colours of imagination.
Page 101 - To move away the ringlet curl From the lovely lady's cheek — There is not wind enough to twirl The one red leaf, the last of its clan, That dances as often as dance it can, Hanging so light, and hanging so high, On the topmost twig that looks up at the sky.
Page 15 - That man, I think, has had a liberal education who has been so trained in youth that his body is the ready servant of his will, and does with ease and pleasure all the work that, as a mechanism, it is capable of...
Page 101 - Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues can poison truth; And constancy lives in realms above; And life is thorny; and youth is vain; And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain.
Page 228 - The man Of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys. Power, like a desolating pestilence, Pollutes whate'er it touches ; and obedience, Bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth, Makes slaves of men, and, of the human frame, A mechanized automaton.
Page 191 - The great men of culture are those who have had a passion for diffusing, for making prevail, for carrying from one end of society to the other, the best knowledge, the best ideas of their time...
Page 278 - There is so much good in the worst of us and so much bad in the best of us that it hardly behooves any of us to talk about the rest of us.
Page 17 - Consequently, education in a democracy, both within and without the school, should develop in each individual the knowledge, interests, ideals, habits, and powers whereby he will find his place and use that place to shape both himself and society toward ever nobler ends .... This commission, therefore, regards the following as the main objectives of education: 1.