Report of the Board of Education ...1878 |
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Page 66 - All the fowls of heaven made their nests in his boughs, and under his branches did all the beasts of the field bring forth their young, and under his shadow dwelt all great nations.
Page 92 - 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 201 - I regard it as an excellent education. These are the tools ; you can do much with them, but you are helpless without them.
Page 66 - Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and of an high stature ; and his top was among the thick boughs.
Page 104 - These periodicals seem to be intended for boys from twelve to sixteen years of age, although they often treat of older persons. Probably many boys outgrow them and come to see the folly and falsehood of them. It is impossible, however, that so much corruption should be afloat and not exert some influence. We say nothing of the great harm which is done to boys of that age, by the nervous excitement of reading harrowing and sensational stories, because the literature before us only participates in...
Page 93 - That all children within this province, of the age of twelve years, shall be taught some useful trade or skill, to the end none may be idle; but the poor may work to live and the rich, if they become poor, may not want.
Page 63 - Girls as well as boys should be early taught both in the family and school that to learn to be useful is alike their duty, privilege and interest. Education should thus be made the auxiliary of labor. Instead of treating it as a degrading drudgery, education should elevate labor and render it more skillful and productive. If the true bearing of education on industry was taught in our schools, our youth would grow up under the salutary conviction that education is economy, and...
Page 220 - ... be obtained in favor of any site, the school visitors of any town adjoining the town or either of the towns in which such district is, on application of the district, shall, after conferring with the school visitors of the town or towns in which such district is situated, fix the site, and make return to the town clerk of the town in which such site is to be, and shall receive a reasonable compensation for their services from said district.
Page 116 - His legions, angel forms, who lay entranced, Thick as autumnal leaves that strew the brooks In Vallombrosa, where the Etrurian shades, High overarched, embower...
Page 110 - ... laborers in Switzerland and Germany socialize far more than American farmers. Their festive spirit is a strongly-marked feature of their character. It is manifested in the family, in neighborhood greetings and meetings, in schools, in rifle feasts, in processions and various social gatherings. They have a passion for nature, and love to frequent their beautiful groves and gardens, for parks or woods abound in or near their cities and towns. This genial spirit is everywhere fostered by music —...