Annual Report of the Commissioners ..., Volume 21, Part 21855 |
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12 stones Agricultural National School Agricultural Schools APPENDIX G Appendix to Dr April Arithmetic Athy attendance average Bailieborough BALANCE SHEET Ballymoney Borecole boys Cabbages Clonmel Clonmellon Commissioners County Cess Cultivation per Acre December District Inspector District Model Schools Ditto Dunmanway examined Expense of Cultivation fair foregoing Returns Geography girls Glasnevin Grammar grass GREEN FALLOW CROPS guano Implements and Repairs Industrial Schools instruction Inventory and Valuation January Kirk Labour of Pupils literary Loss for balance Mangels manure March metic Model Farm National School Farm Newry November oats Paid for Labour pared at home Parsnips patrick's Report Period of Sowing permanent unexhausted improve potatoes Produce per Statute Profit Reading received for Grain Result of Cultivation rye-grass Seed per Statute SHEET for 1854 showing the CROPPING Slated house soil sown Statute Acre STOLEN CROPS stones superphosphate taken at close Teacher tons turnips Valuation at commencement Valuation taken Workhouse Writing
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Page 117 - Each of the several cities and towns in this State be and they hereby are authorized and empowered to make all needful provisions and arrangements concerning habitual truants and children not attending school, without any regular and lawful occupation, growing up in ignorance...
Page 629 - Science then Shall be a precious visitant ; and then, And only then, be worthy of her name : For then her heart shall kindle ; her dull eye, Dull and inanimate, no more shall hang Chained to its object in brute slavery; But taught with patient interest to watch The processes of things, and serve the cause Of order and distinctness, not for this Shall it forget that its most noble use, Its most illustrious province, must be found In furnishing clear guidance, a support Not treacherous, to the mind's...
Page 623 - God hath framed the mind of man as a mirror or glass capable of the image of the universal world, and joyful to receive the impression thereof, as the eye joyeth to receive light...
Page 629 - We shall be wise perforce ; and while inspired By choice, and conscious that the Will is free, Unswerving shall we move, as if impelled By strict necessity, along the path Of order and of good.
Page 628 - Wherefore that here we may briefly end : of Law there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world : all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power : both Angels and men and creatures of what condition soever, though each in different sort and manner, yet all with uniform consent, admiring her as the mother of their peace and joy.
Page 617 - With a view of exemplifying the most approved systems of culture, various rotations of cropping are followed upon separate divisions of the farm. The system of house-feeding cattle is pursued both summer and winter. The arrangements for affording to the pupils as large an amount of information as possible upon every branch of the business of farming, including dairy husbandry, the fattening of cattle, the breeding and rearing of different kinds...
Page 662 - ... as it is called, a book or a science, without any regard to the manner in which it is done. The faculties are strengthened by the use of the faculties; but this doctrine has been quoted to shield a mode of teaching, in which they were not used at all ; and hence has arisen a great amount of teaching, which has had very little effect, either in communicating knowledge, or giving efficiency to mind. Let us, then, come to the truth of the question. It is important what I study : for it is important...
Page 661 - ... 2. These remarks will enable us to correct an error which of late has done very much evil to the science of education, Some years since, I know not when, it was supposed, or we have said it was supposed, that the whole business of education was to store the mind with facts. Dugald Stewart, I believe, somewhere remarks that the business of education, on the contrary, is to cultivate the original faculties.