Citizenship and the SchoolsH. Holt, 1906 - 264 pages |
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Page 199 - The citizen should be moulded to suit the form of government under which he lives." For each government has a peculiar character which originally formed and which continues to preserve it. The character of democracy creates democracy, and the character of oligarchy creates oligarchy; and always the better the character, the better the government.
Page 207 - That education should be regulated by law and should be an affair of state is not to be denied, but what should be the character of this public education, and how young persons should be educated, are questions which remain to be considered.
Page 75 - These are traits and measures and modes ; and the true test of civilization is, not the census, nor the size of cities, nor the crops, — no, but the kind of man the country turns out.
Page 88 - This every man is entitled to; this every man contains within him, although in almost all men obstructed, and as yet unborn.
Page 21 - The garners of Sicily are empty now, but the bees from all climes still fetch honey from the tiny garden-plot of Theocritus. On a map of the world you may cover Judea with your thumb, Athens with a finger-tip, and neither of them figures in the Prices Current ; but they still lord it in the thought and action of every civilized man.
Page 240 - ... could be furnished to the people of this state for use in the common schools at the lowest price, taking into consideration the size and quality as to matter, material, style of binding and mechanical execution of such books : Provided, always, That such board shall not in any case contract with any author, publisher or publishers for the furnishing of any book, manuscript, copyright or books which shall be sold to patrons for use in the public schools of this state at a price above or in excess...
Page 240 - The Governor of the State, the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, the president of the State University, the president of...