The Social Factors Affecting Special Supervision in the Public Schools of the United States, Issue 43 |
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Art and Industry attention Bureau of Education cent Central Division North Central Division Western Circular of Information cities employing specialists Cities M. T. Sew Cities M.T. Class Commissioner of Education connection curriculum demand Diocletian Lewis Division North Central Division South Atlan Division Western Divi domestic science early economic educa Education Report employing specialists irrespective employment of specialists exercise following quotation girls gymnastics Horace Mann Ibid Industrial Education Association influence intellectual interest kindergarten Kitchen Garden Lowell Mason M.T. Sew manual training school Massachusetts Median Salary ment movement National Education Association Nicholas Murray Butler North Atlantic organization penmanship Percentage of cities physical education popular pressure public schools reading school regular teacher sanction schoolroom singing school sion Total social South Central Division special teachers specialists in music Superintendent TABLE taught teaching tic Division South tion U. S. Bureau United women writing schools York ΙΟ
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Page 72 - It being one chief point of that old deluder, Satan, to keep men from the knowledge of the Scriptures, as in former times, by keeping them in an unknown tongue, so in these latter times, by persuading from the use of tongues, that so at last the true sense and meaning of the original might be clouded by false glosses of saint-seeming deceivers, that learning might not be buried in the grave of our fathers in church and commonwealth...
Page 73 - 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, as not to endeavor to teach by themselves or others, their children and apprentices so much learning, as may enable them perfectly to read the English tongue, and knowledge of the capital laws, upon penalty of twenty shillings for each neglect therein...
Page 72 - Church and Commonwealth, the Lord assisting our endeavors, — "It is therefore ordered, That every township in this jurisdiction, after the Lord hath increased them to the number of fifty householders, shall then forthwith appoint one within their town to teach all such children as shall resort to him to write and read...
Page 17 - Any city or town may, and every city and town having more than ten thousand inhabitants shall, annually make provision for giving free instruction in industrial or mechanical drawing to persons over fifteen years of age, either in day or evening schools, under the direction of the school...
Page 17 - For such reasons we ask that the Board of Education may be directed to report, in detail, to the next general court, some definite plan for introducing schools for drawing, or instruction in drawing, free to all men, women and children, in all towns of the Commonwealth of more than five thousand inhabitants.
Page 59 - We have proposed no formal provision for the gymnastics of the school, although a proper object of attention for every institution of youth. These exercises with ancient nations, constituted the principal part of the education of their youth. Their arms and mode of warfare rendered them severe in the extreme. Ours, on the same correct principle, should be adapted to our arms...
Page 72 - ... that learning may not be buried in the grave of our forefathers, in church and commonwealth, the Lord assisting our endeavors; It is therefore ordered...
Page 17 - Your petitioners respectfully represent that every branch of manufacturing in which the citizens of Massachusetts are engaged, requires in the details of the processes connected with it, some knowledge of drawing and other arts of design on the part of the skilled workman engaged.
Page 73 - And further that all parents and masters do breed and bring up their children and apprentices in some honest, lawful calling, labor, or employment, either in husbandry or some other trade profitable for themselves and the commonwealth, if they will not, nor can not, train them up in learning to fit them for higher employments...
Page 64 - Dr. Windship had done all that was needed in apostleship of severe exercises, and there was wanting some man with a milder hobby, perfectly safe for a lady to drive. The Fates provided that man also in Dr. Lewis — so hale and hearty, so profoundly confident in the omnipotence of his own methods and the uselessness of all others, with such a ready invention, and such an inundation of animal spirits, that he could flood any company, no matter how starched or listless, with an unbounded appetite for...