 It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods. There I grew up. There were some schools, so called, but no qualification was ever required of a teacher beyond " readin', writin', and cipherin'  St. Nicholas - Page 24edited by - 1906Full view - About this book
 | John Carroll Power - Anagamon County (Ill.) - 1876 - 820 pages
...Indiana, in my eighth year. We reached our new home about the time the .State came into the Union. It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals...the woods. There I grew up. There were some schools, so-called, but no qualification was ever required of a teacher, beyond "readin', writin' and cipherin'... | |
 | Education - 1911 - 458 pages
...Indiana, in my eighth year. We reached our new home about the time the State came into the Union. It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals...qualification was ever required of a teacher beyond "readin', writin', and figurin' " to the rule of three. If a straggler supposed to understand Latin... | |
 | David W. Lusk - Illinois - 1884 - 600 pages
...Indiana, in my 8th year. We reached our new home about the time the State came into the Union. It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals...the woods. There I grew up. There were some schools, socalled, but no qualification was ever required of a teacher beyond 'readin', writin,' and cipherin'... | |
 | Education - 1887 - 716 pages
...century. Lincoln himself, writing of his experience as a boy in Perry County, Indiana, said, "It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods. There were some schools so called, but no qualification was ever required of a teacher beyond 'readin', writin',... | |
 | Noah Brooks - 1888 - 512 pages
...Indiana, in my eighth year. We reached our new home about the time the State came into the Union. It was a' wild region, with many bears and other wild animals...the woods. There I grew up. There were some schools so-called, but no qualification was ever required of a teacher beyond ' readin,' writin', and cipherin'... | |
 | National Education Association of the United States - Education - 1889 - 746 pages
...to hard drinking." Lincoln, writing his experience as a boy, said of Perry county, Indiana: "It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods. There were some schools, so called, but no qualification was ever required of a teacher beyond 'readin',... | |
 | John George Nicolay, John Hay - United States - 1890 - 544 pages
...region," writes Mr. Lincoln, in one of those rare bits of autobiography which he left behind him, " with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods. There were some schools so-called, but no qualification was ever required of a teacher beyond ' readin',... | |
 | John George Nicolay, John Hay - Presidents - 1890 - 536 pages
...region," writes Mr. Lincoln, in one of those rare bits of autobiography which he left behind him, " with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods. There were some schools so-called, but no qualification was ever required of a teacher beyond ' readin',... | |
 | William Henry Venable - American literature - 1891 - 550 pages
...hard drinking." Lincoln, writing his experience as a boy, said of Perry county, Indiana : " It was a wild region with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods. There were some schools, so-called, but no qualification was ever required of a teacher beyond ' readin',... | |
 | Charles Wallace French - Biography & Autobiography - 1891 - 412 pages
...home about the time that the State came into the Union. It was a wild region with many bears and other animals still in the woods. There I grew up. There were some schools, so-called, but no qualification was ever required of a teacher beyond ' readin', ritin' and cipherin'... | |
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