Abstracts of Massachusetts School Returns1840 |
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... teach your children idleness . Another very important requisite in a teacher is a skill in governing a school . Unless good order is kept in school , there can be but little improvement . This is a faculty , the deficiency of which can ...
... teach your children idleness . Another very important requisite in a teacher is a skill in governing a school . Unless good order is kept in school , there can be but little improvement . This is a faculty , the deficiency of which can ...
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... teacher is nulli- fied at once , and disorder and confusion inevitably ensue . Let every child en- ter the school room with the indelible impression received from the parent , that the authority of the teacher is necessary and right and ...
... teacher is nulli- fied at once , and disorder and confusion inevitably ensue . Let every child en- ter the school room with the indelible impression received from the parent , that the authority of the teacher is necessary and right and ...
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... teacher may be employed , because he is " clever , " in the common acceptation of that term ; because he has a local in- fluence in the Ward ; or because he will teach for low wages , and a school may be kept longer for the same money ...
... teacher may be employed , because he is " clever , " in the common acceptation of that term ; because he has a local in- fluence in the Ward ; or because he will teach for low wages , and a school may be kept longer for the same money ...
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... teacher , have been rendered almost useless , for the want of a uniformity in books , and the hearty coöperation of the ... teach . They often lack an interest in the pursuit , and almost all want experience in the business . Having ...
... teacher , have been rendered almost useless , for the want of a uniformity in books , and the hearty coöperation of the ... teach . They often lack an interest in the pursuit , and almost all want experience in the business . Having ...
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... teacher being once engaged , the Board find it very difficult to exercise their veto , even if the teacher is not such a person as they would choose . The principle of veto is designed for extreme cases , and if a teacher thus appointed ...
... teacher being once engaged , the Board find it very difficult to exercise their veto , even if the teacher is not such a person as they would choose . The principle of veto is designed for extreme cases , and if a teacher thus appointed ...
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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.