Abstracts of Massachusetts School Returns1840 |
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... feel , therefore , con- strained to direct your attention to these qualifications in a teacher , because they feel that our schools have suffered in consequence of deficiencies in these particulars . They have called your attention to ...
... feel , therefore , con- strained to direct your attention to these qualifications in a teacher , because they feel that our schools have suffered in consequence of deficiencies in these particulars . They have called your attention to ...
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... feel , there is not that attention paid to the morals of children which is demanded . While some ap- pear to care much for the knowledge of their offspring , they seem to care little for their virtue . That education which respects the ...
... feel , there is not that attention paid to the morals of children which is demanded . While some ap- pear to care much for the knowledge of their offspring , they seem to care little for their virtue . That education which respects the ...
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... feel specially interested to attend the examinations , when they can see and hear for themselves . Such a practice of visitation on the part of parents , ever desirable , would , beside relieving a particular one from the unwelcome ...
... feel specially interested to attend the examinations , when they can see and hear for themselves . Such a practice of visitation on the part of parents , ever desirable , would , beside relieving a particular one from the unwelcome ...
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... feel an interest in the operation , and have an eye to the progress and completion of the work . But when a far greater sum is appropriated , to be expended in a service that is to form the habits and character of a man's own children ...
... feel an interest in the operation , and have an eye to the progress and completion of the work . But when a far greater sum is appropriated , to be expended in a service that is to form the habits and character of a man's own children ...
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... feel interested on the subject , are tax - payers , whose chil- dren are already educated , or who have none for whose intellectual necessities to provide . With them , this , as all other questions of public expenditure , ap- peals to ...
... feel interested on the subject , are tax - payers , whose chil- dren are already educated , or who have none for whose intellectual necessities to provide . With them , this , as all other questions of public expenditure , ap- peals to ...
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00-Of Females 1.-Aggregate of months 14-In Winter age who attend Aggregate length Aggregate of months Aggregate paid Amount of board Amount of money attend School Average attendance Average number Average value Average wages paid board and fuel board per month-Of board-Of Males Class Book Colburn's contributed for Public duty evil exclusive of board-Of Funds gate paid Geography-Olney's Goodrich's History Grammar-Smith's improvement including board-To Males Income incorporated Academies instruction interest mind money raised month exclusive month including board-To month-Of Males moral mths mths.-In Summer National Reader number of 13 Number of Public number of Scholars Olney's paid for tuition paid per month persons Population Private Schools prolong Common Schools prudential committees Public Schools pupils qualifications raised by taxes school committee schoolhouses Schools-In Summer SELECTIONS FROM REPORT Smith's support of Schools Teachers in Summer-M Teachers in Winter-M town unincorporated Valuation value of board wages of Teachers wages per month Worcester's
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Page 218 - For do but note a wild and wanton herd, Or race of youthful and unhandled colts, Fetching mad bounds, bellowing and neighing loud, Which is the hot condition of their blood ; If they but hear perchance a trumpet sound, Or any air of music touch their ears, You shall perceive them make a mutual stand, Their savage eyes turned to a modest gaze By the sweet power of music...
Page 165 - Promote, then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened.
Page 186 - That our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth: that our daughters may be as corner stones, polished after the similitude of a palace...
Page 426 - ... 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 ; and...
Page 426 - It shall be the duty of the president, professors, and tutors of the University at Cambridge and of the several colleges, of all preceptors and teachers of academies, and of all other instructors of youth, to exert their best endeavors to impress on the minds of children and youth committed to their care and instruction the principles of piety and justice and a sacred regard to truth ; love of their country, humanity, and universal benevolence; sobriety, industry, and frugality; chastity, moderation,...
Page 143 - ... unless such child shall have attended some public or private day school where instruction was given by a teacher qualified to instruct in...
Page 376 - It shall be the duty of the resident ministers of the gospel, the selectmen, and the school committees, in the several towns, to exert their influence, and use their best endeavors, that the youth of their towns shall regularly attend the schools established for their instruction.
Page 393 - ... 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...
Page 143 - Any two or more contiguous school districts may associate together and form a union district, for the purpose of maintaining a union school, to be kept for the benefit of the older children of such associated districts...
Page 143 - The owner, agent, or superintendent of any manufacturing establishment, who shall employ any child in such establishment, contrary to the provisions of this act, shall forfeit the sum of fifty dollars for each offence, to be recovered, by indictment, to the use of Common Schools, in the towns, respectively, where such establishments may be situated.