The Popular Education of France: With Notices of that of Holland and Switzerland |
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administration aristocracy arrondissement assistant-teachers attendance authority Blanquefort boys Brethren burgomaster Canton Catholic certificate of capacity charge Christian Church commune congreganist conseil council cracy culture curé decree democracy département departmental Dutch ecclesiastical école primaire elementary schools élèves England English established être examination florins France French Fribourg functionaries Geneva girls give Government Guizot Haarlem head-master Holland inspection instituteur institutions l'enseignement l'Instruction primaire l'Instruction publique lay schools legislation les préaux liberty Loi sur l'Instruction master ment middle classes minister of religion moniteur moral municipal nation nearly Neufchâtel normal school Paris party poor popular education population prefect present primary inspectors primary instruction primary schools private schools Protestant Protestantism province Public Instruction public schools pupil-teachers receive rectors religion religious instruction salary scholars school-fees schoolmaster sera seront society South Holland spirit State-action struction superintendence superior taught teachers teaching tion towns Valais Vaud village
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Page xxxi - Compound for sins, they are inclin'd to; By damning those they have no mind to...
Page 249 - Le maire du chef-lieu ou le plus ancien des maires du chef-lieu de la circonscription ; Le juge de paix ou le plus ancien des juges de paix de la circonscription ; Le curé ou le plus ancien des curés de la circonscription ; Un ministre de chacun des autres cultes reconnus par la loi, qui exercera dans la circonscription, et qui aura été...
Page xvii - The laws reach but a very little way. Constitute government how you please, infinitely the greater part of it must depend upon the exercise of the powers which are left at large to the prudence and uprightness of ministers of state.
Page 268 - We, William, by the Grace of God, King of the Netherlands, Prince of Orange-Nassau, Grand Duke of Luxemburg, &c. When the government of Belgium was given into our hands by the High Allied Powers, we had previously given our formal adhesion to the conditions of the Union of Belgium...
Page xvii - ... the body of the nation in its predominance and right to lead, is nearly over. That acquiescence was the tenure by which it held its power ; and it is fast giving way. The superiority of the upper class over all others is no longer so great ; the willingness of the others to recognise that superiority is no longer so ready.
Page 248 - Cette caisse sera formée par une retenue annuelle d'un vingtième sur le traitement fixe de chaque instituteur communal. Le montant de la retenue sera placé...
Page 220 - And not the orthodox only, but the great majority of mankind — the undevout, the indifferent, the sceptical — have a deep-seated feeling that religion ought to be blended with the instruction of their children, even though it is never blended with their own lives. They have a feeling equally deep-seated, that no religion has ever yet been impressively and effectively conveyed to ordinary minds, except under the conditions of a dogmatic shape and positive formularies. The State must not forget...
Page xxxii - The difficulty for democracy is, how to find and keep high ideals. The individuals who compose it are, the bulk of them, persons who need to follow an ideal, not to set one ; and one ideal of greatness, high feeling, and fine culture, which an aristocracy once supplied to them, they lose by the very fact of ceasing to be a lower order and becoming a democracy. Nations are not truly great solely because the individuals composing them are numerous, free, and active ; but they are great when these numbers,...
Page xlv - ... below them, whose sympathies are at the present moment actually wider and more liberal than theirs. They arrive, these masses, eager to enter into possession of the world, to gain a more vivid sense of their own life and activity. In this their irrepressible development, their natural educators and initiators are those immediately above them, the middle classes. If these classes cannot win their sympathy or give them their direction, society is in danger of falling into anarchy.
Page 71 - Where the school is appropriated to one denomination, no child of another denomination is admitted except at the express demand of his parents or guardians, signified in writing to the teacher. Of such demands the teacher is bound to keep a register, to be produced to all the school authorities.