Education, Volume 10New England Publishing Company, 1890 |
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... question of the relation of examination to education is perplexing , not from any inherent difficulty in itself , but because it is not easy to see how we can dispense with a servant that has so long been in such general use . It is not ...
... question of the relation of examination to education is perplexing , not from any inherent difficulty in itself , but because it is not easy to see how we can dispense with a servant that has so long been in such general use . It is not ...
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... question of cheating in examinations is a very grave one , and the extent to which it is carried is quite unknown by the average teacher . In many cases they refuse to acknowledge that it is as general as it really is , and will close ...
... question of cheating in examinations is a very grave one , and the extent to which it is carried is quite unknown by the average teacher . In many cases they refuse to acknowledge that it is as general as it really is , and will close ...
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... question : Do written examinations afford a safe criterion of knowledge ? it may safely be affirmed that with set questions they do not . As has been remarked , the good and the bad students are not unfre- quently on the same footing ...
... question : Do written examinations afford a safe criterion of knowledge ? it may safely be affirmed that with set questions they do not . As has been remarked , the good and the bad students are not unfre- quently on the same footing ...
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Examinations for marks , either written with set questions , or oral , must be rejected on the simple grounds of not ... question calls for a glance at the lower portions of the educational fabric . No part of a student's life is so dull ...
Examinations for marks , either written with set questions , or oral , must be rejected on the simple grounds of not ... question calls for a glance at the lower portions of the educational fabric . No part of a student's life is so dull ...
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... question . But because no solution of the difficulty has been found is no reason why we should content our- selves ... questions in a public school examination . In geography , for example , the pupil is expected to name all the rivers ...
... question . But because no solution of the difficulty has been found is no reason why we should content our- selves ... questions in a public school examination . In geography , for example , the pupil is expected to name all the rivers ...
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Page 92 - A school or schools shall be established in each county by the legislature for the convenient instruction of youth, with such salaries to the masters paid by the public as may enable them to instruct youth at low prices: And all useful learning shall be duly encouraged and promoted in one or more universities.
Page 92 - The legislature shall, as soon as conveniently may be, provide, by law, for the establishment of schools throughout the State, in such manner that the poor may be taught gratis.
Page 192 - So here hath been dawning Another blue Day: Think wilt thou let it Slip useless away. Out of Eternity This new Day is born; Into Eternity, At night, will return. Behold it aforetime No eye ever did : So soon it forever From all eyes is hid. Here hath been dawning Another blue Day : Think wilt thou let it Slip useless away.
Page 178 - Assembly to encourage by all suitable means moral, intellectual, scientific, and agricultural improvement, and to provide by law for a general and uniform system of common schools, wherein tuition shall be without charge, and equally open to all.
Page 92 - That it be recommended to the respective assemblies and conventions of the United Colonies, where no government sufficient to the exigencies of their affairs has been hitherto established, to adopt such government as shall in the opinion of the representatives of the people, best conduce to the happiness and safety of their constituents in particular, and America in general.
Page 33 - Incipe, parve puer, risu cognoscere matrem ; matri longa decem tulerunt fastidia menses. Incipe, parve puer : cui non risere parentes, nee deus hunc mensa, dea nec dignata cubili est.
Page 79 - For these reasons it has been my ardent wish to see a plan devised on a liberal scale which would have a tendency to spread systematic ideas through all parts of this rising empire, thereby to do away local attachments and state prejudices as far as the nature of things would, or indeed ought to admit, from our national councils.
Page 79 - Item. — I give and bequeath, in perpetuity, the fifty shares which I hold in the Potomac company, (under the aforesaid acts of the Legislature of Virginia,) towards the endowment of a University, to be established within the limits of the district of Columbia, under the auspices of the general government...
Page 168 - The capital of the common school fund, the capital of the literature fund, and the capital of the United States deposit fund, shall be respectively preserved inviolate. The revenue of the said common school fund shall be applied to the support of common schools...
Page 80 - Looking anxiously forward to the accomplishment of so desirable an object as this is (in my estimation) my mind has not been able to contemplate any plan more likely to effect the measure than the establishment of a UNIVERSITY in a central part of the United States...