Annual Report of the Board of Education Together with the ... Annual Report of the Secretary of the BoardBoard of Education, 1873 - Education 1st-72nd include the annual report of the Secretary of the Board. |
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amount arithmetic art-education average attendance Barnstable Berkshire Bernardston blackboard Board Boston Braintree branches Bridgewater Brimfield building cent Charlestown child cities and towns Common Schools Commonwealth COUNTY COUNTY-CONCLUDED Dessin district dollars duties elementary employed excellent exercises exhibition expense feet Foxborough Freetown furnished give given grade graduates Grammar School Haverhill High School Honorable mention Hopkinton Hubbardston hundred improvement industrial drawing institutions instruction interest knowledge labor language Leominster lessons Mattapoisett means mechanical drawing ment methods Millbury mind Normal Schools Northbridge number of children number of pupils object parents persons Phillipston practical present Primary Schools principal Public Schools Salem scholars school committee school-houses school-room Scituate secure Southborough Southbridge spelling success Superintendent taught Taunton Taxation teachers teaching text-books tion Total truancy truant truant officer Valuation of 1871 Visible Speech Walter Smith whole number Worcester words
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Page 15 - Every person having under his control a child between the ages of eight and fourteen years, shall annually, during the continuance of his control, send such child to some public school in the city or town in which he resides...
Page 201 - The vital knowledge— that by which we have grown as a nation to what we are, and which now underlies our whole existence, is a knowledge that has got itself taught in nooks and corners; while the ordained agencies for teaching have been mumbling little else but dead formulas.
Page 207 - At least 80 per cent, of the crime of New England is committed by those who have no education, or none sufficient to serve them a valuable purpose in life.
Page 181 - Provided, that in no case shall the expense of any such school exceed the appropriation specifically made therefor; and Provided, that nothing in this act contained shall authorize the school committee of any city or town to compel any scholar to study any trade, art, or occupation, without the consent of the parent or guardian of such scholar, and that attendance upon any such school shall not take the place of the attendance upon public schools required by law.
Page 84 - ... the house of industry, or correction, at South Boston, or any other house or building belonging to said city, that the city council may appropriate to these uses. SECT. -2.
Page 85 - ... place the said children committed to their care, during the minority of such children, at such employments, and cause them to be instructed in such branches of useful knowledge, as shall be suitable to their years and capacities...
Page 158 - The system does not interfere with any existing plan of education. Visible speech takes no part in the contest between articulation on the one hand, and signs and manual alphabets on the other. In presenting his system for adoption, all that the inventor means to say is this : ' Here is a means by which you can obtain perfect articulation from deaf-mutes ; make what use of it you choose.
Page 201 - All our industries would cease, were it not for that information which men begin to acquire as they best may after their education is said to be finished.
Page 151 - Aggregate returned as expended on Public Schools alone, exclusive of expense of repairing and erecting school-houses, and of...
Page 123 - ... etc., was rented, and after a short time the income therefrom was regularly applied to the support of the school. This school continued to be maintained, though there is no mention of a schoolhouse until 1048, when one was ordered to be built on "Windmill Hill" and paid for by a