The American Normal School: Its Rise and Development in Massachusetts |
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abstract Academy Acts and Resolves adopted Annual Report appointed appropriation April 19 attendance bill Board of Education Board of Visitors Boston Bridgewater Brooks Carter Chapter Charles Brooks Commissioner Committee on Education Common School Journal Commonwealth convention Department of Education distribution duties Educa education of teachers establishment Everett examination expenses experience favor February February 20 Framingham Governor graduates high school Horace Mann House institution instruction interest James G January January 13 June lecture legislative legislature Lexington Mann's March March 13 Massachusetts meeting ment Minutes model school normal schools Plymouth Plymouth county practice school preparation present principal private schools proposed Prussian public schools pupils qualifying question quoted received referred salary Salem school committees school fund school returns school system Secretary Seminaries Senate session Superintendent teaching term thousand dollars tion towns training school vote West Newton Westfield Worcester
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Page 39 - Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of a fool than of him.
Page 57 - We need an institution for the formation of better teachers ; and, until this step is taken, we can make no important progress. The most crying want in this Commonwealth is the want of accomplished teachers. We boast of our schools ; but our schools do comparatively little, for want of educated instructors. Without good teaching, a school is but a name. An institution for training men to train the young, would be a fountain...
Page 89 - Leddyship - and when the hour of death comes, that comes to high and low - lang and late may it be yours! - Oh, my Leddy, then it isna what we hae dune for oursells, but what we hae dune for others, that we think on maist pleasantly.
Page 89 - It were good therefore that men in their innovations would follow the example of time itself; which indeed innovateth greatly, but quietly, and by degrees scarce to be perceived.
Page 70 - to collect information of the actual condition and efficiency of the Common Schools, and other means of Popular Education, and to diffuse, as widely as possible, throughout every part of the Commonwealth, information of the most approved and successful methods of arranging the studies and conducting the education of the young...
Page 395 - ... which the candidate for teaching spends his probationary years. This is the daily atmosphere he breathes. These are the sacred, elevating, invigorating influences constantly pouring in upon his soul. Hence, at the expiration of his course, he leaves the seminary to enter upon his profession, glowing with enthusiasm for the noble cause he has espoused, and strong in his resolves to perform its manifold and momentous duties. Here then is the cause of the worth and standing of the teachers whom...
Page 8 - To the Honorable the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in General Court assembled.
Page 89 - ... both sums to be expended, under the direction of said Board, in qualifying teachers for the Common Schools in Massachusetts. Resolved, That the Board of Education shall render an annual account of the manner in which said moneys have been by them expended.
Page 75 - I believe to be like a spring, almost imperceptible, flowing from the highest table-land, between oceans, which is destined to deepen and widen as it descends, diffusing fertility and beauty in its course ; and nations shall dwell upon its banks. It is the first great movement towards an organized system of common education, which shall at once be thorough and universal.
Page 89 - March current, to the president of the senate and speaker of the house of representatives, it appears, that private munificence* has placed at his disposal the sum of ten thousand dollars to promote the cause of popular education in Massachusetts, on condition that the Commonwealth will contribute, from unappropriated funds, the same amount in aid of the same cause, the two sums to be drawn upon equally, from time to time, as needed, and to be disbursed under the direction of the board of education...