Annual Report of the Secretary of the Vermont Board of Education, Volumes 13-15

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J.C. Warner's, 1862 - Education
 

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Page 10 - Executors and administrators under this chapter shall have the same rights and be subject to the same liabilities that their testators or intestate would or might have if living.
Page 133 - 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, in such manner as the legislatures of the States may respectively prescribe, in order to promote the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes in the...
Page 7 - The school committee shall require full and satisfactory evidence of the good moral character of all instructors who may be employed in the public schools in their town, and shall ascertain, by personal examination, their literary qualifications and capacity for the government of schools.
Page 17 - Any two or more contiguous school districts may associate together and form a union district, for the purpose of maintaining a union school, to be kept for the benefit of the older children of such associated districts...
Page 7 - ... not expressly conceded, that schools, in order to realize the intent of the constitution in their behalf, must be subjected to system and order under established rules. Hence, the law charges the committee with the duty of " adopting all requisite measures for the inspection, examination and regulation of the schools, and the improvement of the scholars in learning:
Page 10 - Young persons, however well disposed, cannot support a restriction to one place and one posture. Nature resists such restrictions ; and if enforced, they are apt to create disgust with the means and the object. Thus children learn to hate studies that might be rendered agreeable, and they take an aversion to instructors, who would otherwise be interesting to them. The postures they assume while, seated at their studies, are not indifferent. They should be frequently warned against the practice of...
Page 106 - ... or upon the trial of any prosecution, that the party so neglecting was not able, by reason of poverty, to send such child to school...
Page 69 - Institute, where the teachers were distributed through all the principal families, and the evenings were devoted to public addresses and discussions on topics connected with the organization and administration of the school system, and the classification, instruction and discipline of public schools, where the work of educational improvement did not at once begin, and...
Page 13 - But build it where some sheltering hill or wood mitigates the inclemency of winter ; where a neighboring grove tempers the summer heat, furnishing cool and shady walks ; remove it a little from the public highway, and from buildings where noisy and clattering trades are carried on ; and. above all, rescue it from sound or sight of all resorts for license and dissipation...
Page 60 - A schoolmaster has, in general, no right to punish a pupil for misconduct committed after the dismissal of school for the day, and the return of the pupil to his home, yet he...

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