Proceedings of the California State Teachers' Institute and Educational Convention ...Department of Public Instruction, 1861 - Education List of members in each volume. |
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... Grammar , or Phi- losophy . All our exercises will be based upon the presumption that every Teacher who has charge of a Public School , in this State , is already familiar with the facts of the sciences he is called upon to teach . Our ...
... Grammar , or Phi- losophy . All our exercises will be based upon the presumption that every Teacher who has charge of a Public School , in this State , is already familiar with the facts of the sciences he is called upon to teach . Our ...
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... Grammar , Arithmetic , History , etc. whose province will be a careful comparison of the merits of all works on those subjects , with a view to their introduction into our schools . By this means no special merit of any book will escape ...
... Grammar , Arithmetic , History , etc. whose province will be a careful comparison of the merits of all works on those subjects , with a view to their introduction into our schools . By this means no special merit of any book will escape ...
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... Grammar School which I attended . It was a very long room with a smoke pipe extending the whole length of it , into which , so the Master said , all bad boys would go . I was puzzled for some time to find where it led , as it passed AND ...
... Grammar School which I attended . It was a very long room with a smoke pipe extending the whole length of it , into which , so the Master said , all bad boys would go . I was puzzled for some time to find where it led , as it passed AND ...
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... Grammar School provided with the following articles , for use in the various departments , namely : Peck , gallon , quart , pint , and gill , measures ; grains , pennyweights , ounces , and pounds , of the different measures , blocks to ...
... Grammar School provided with the following articles , for use in the various departments , namely : Peck , gallon , quart , pint , and gill , measures ; grains , pennyweights , ounces , and pounds , of the different measures , blocks to ...
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... grammar , and their minds will be better prepared to grapple with the difficulties of the study . Time is lost by putting children into studies for which their minds are not ripe . " Gram- mar is not the stepping - stone , but the ...
... grammar , and their minds will be better prepared to grapple with the difficulties of the study . Time is lost by putting children into studies for which their minds are not ripe . " Gram- mar is not the stepping - stone , but the ...
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Page 18 - The limits of their little reign And unknown regions dare descry: Still as they run they look behind, They hear a voice in every wind, And snatch a fearful joy. Gay hope is theirs by fancy fed, Less pleasing when possest; The tear forgot as soon as shed, The sunshine of the breast...
Page 65 - State which may take and claim the benefit of this act to the endowment, support, and maintenance of at least one college where the leading object shall be, without excluding other scientific and classical studies, and including military tactics, to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts...
Page 79 - Now, what I want is, Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts : nothing else will ever be of any service to them. This is the principle on which I bring up my own children, and this is the principle on which I bring up these children. Stick to Facts, sir...
Page 72 - For the purpose of public instruction, we hold every man subject to taxation in proportion to his property, and we look not to the question, whether he himself have, or have not, children to be bencfitted by the education for which he pays. We regard it as a wise and liberal system of police, by which property, and life, and the peace of society are secured.
Page 72 - By general instruction, we seek, as far as possible, to purify the whole moral atmosphere ; to keep good sentiments uppermost, and to turn the strong current of feeling and opinion, as well as the censures of the law, and the denunciations of religion, against immorality and crime. We hope for a security, beyond the law, and above the law, in the prevalence of enlightened and well-principled moral sentiment.
Page 78 - Forasmuch as the good education of children is of singular behoof and benefit to any commonwealth, and whereas many parents and masters are too indulgent and negligent of their duty in that kind: It is therefore ordered by this Court and the authority thereof, that the selectmen of every town, in the several precincts and quarters where they dwell, shall have a vigilant eye over their brethren and neighbors, to see first : that none of them shall suffer so much barbarism in any of their families...
Page 79 - He and some one hundred and forty other schoolmasters had been lately turned at the same time, in the same factory, on the same principles, like so many pianoforte legs. He had been put through an immense variety of paces, and had answered volumes of head-breaking questions. Orthography, etymology, syntax, and prosody, biography, astronomy, geography, and general cosmography, the sciences of compound proportion, algebra, land-surveying and levelling, vocal music, and drawing from models, were all...
Page 97 - the constitution and the laws of the United States, made in pursuance thereof, shall be the supreme law of the land, anything in the constitution or laws of any state to the contrary notwithstanding.
Page 98 - The government of the United States, then, though limited in its powers, is supreme; and its laws, when made in pursuance of the Constitution, form the supreme law of the land, ' ' anything in the Constitution or laws of any State to the contrary notwithstanding.
Page 14 - ... he shall ascertain by the best evidence in his power the facts upon which the ratio of such apportionment shall depend, and shall make the apportionment accordingly.