Report of the Board of Education of the State of Connecticut to the Governor: Together with the Report of the Secretary of the BoardLockwood & Brainard Company, 1873 |
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Page 206 - ... unless the physical or mental condition of the child is such as to render such attendance inexpedient or impracticable.
Page 201 - In chemistry, in the arts and agriculture, experiments, however expensive, are often necessary and useful. Persevering trials and repeated failures usually precede, and sometimes suggest valuable inventions. But of all experimenting, the most needless, costly and fruitless, and yet the most common, is the practice of " placing a new hand at the wheel " annually, or even twice a year, in our school-houses. When passing...
Page 122 - ... town may direct the School Visitors to employ the teachers, and shall be holden to pay the wages of such teachers, as are employed by the committee of such district in conformity to law...
Page 190 - I have another and a far brighter vision before my gaze. It may be but a vision, but I will cherish it. I see one vast confederation stretching from the frozen North in unbroken line to the glowing South, and from the wild billows of the Atlantic westward to the calmer waters of the Pacific main,— and I see one people, and one language, and one law, and one faith, and, over all that wide continent, the home of freedom, and a refuge for the oppressed of every race and of every clime.
Page 238 - It will be seen that, prior to the union, there was much ill-feeling in regard to School matters, that the discipline was deplorable, average attendance low, and the Teachers changed generally every Term ; under the new System, the people are better satisfied. School Committee and Teachers more permanent, Schools graded, Terms lengthened, the motion made at the last Annual Meeting to reduce the School year from forty to thirty weeks not receiving a single vote. The average attendance has improved...
Page 190 - I have a far other and far brighter vision before my gaze. It may be but a vision, but I will cherish it. I see one vast Confederation stretching from the frozen North in unbroken line to the glowing South, and from the wild billows of the Atlantic, westward to the calmer waters of the Pacific main — and I see one people, and one law, and one language, and one faith, and over all that wide continent, the home of freedom, and a refuge for the oppressed of every race and of every clime.
Page 106 - ... productive brain-capacity as well as the material wealth of the country, cannot be estimated in dollars and cents. From all parts of the country come back most favorable reports of the graduates who have been sent out, and their influence, already great, is constantly on the increase. TABLE X.— SCHOOLS OF THEOLOGY.
Page 123 - They shall provide suitable schoolrooms,« and furnish the same with fuel properly prepared ; . Visit the schools, by one or more of their number, twice at least during each term ; Shall, when the scholars are not properly supplied with books, and their parents are too poor to furnish them, provide the same, the cost thereof to be included in the incidental expenses of the...
Page 212 - The board of education of tha city-school-district, in its report for the year ended September 1, 1872, says : " Nearly two years have passed since the New Haven board attempted to give efficiency to the then existing laws against truancy and vagrancy by the establishment of a truant-school and by making more commodious the ungraded school in Fair street for children who are irregular in their attendance. * * A more definite statement of what has been accomplished * * * on these subjects includes...
Page 201 - ... predecessor, and get his own plans and processes fully into operation, and the result is very likely to be neglect of system. The conviction that there will not be time to carry out any settled policy, and that, if commenced, it may be wholly counteracted by an incompetent successor, discourages the attempt. It has long been a conceded point among successful teachers, that a second term in the same school is worth at least one-third more than the first. The school-room is the most unfortunate...