National Education in Its Social Conditions and Aspects: And Public Elementary School Education, English and ForeignStrahan & Company, 1873 - 517 pages |
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Page 93 - It being one chief project of that old deluder, Satan, to keep men from the knowledge of the Scriptures, as in former times by keeping them in an unknown tongue, so in these latter times by persuading from the use of tongues...
Page 496 - ... school on any day exclusively set apart for religious observance by the religious body to which his parent belongs.
Page 459 - It shall not be required as a condition of any child being admitted into or continuing in the school, that he shall attend or abstain from attending any Sunday school, or any place of religious worship, or that he shall attend any religious observance or any instruction in religious subjects in the school or elsewhere...
Page 456 - There shall be provided for every school district a sufficient amount of accommodation in public elementary schools (as herein-after defined) available for all the children resident in such district for whose elementary education efficient and suitable provision is not otherwise made...
Page 459 - No religious catechism or religious formulary which is distinctive of any particular denomination shall be taught in the school.
Page 214 - An education established and controlled by the State should only exist, if it exists at all, as one among many competing experiments, carried on for the purpose of example and stimulus, to keep the others up to a certain standard of excellence.
Page vi - Not only does it include whatever we do for ourselves, and whatever is done for us by others, for the express purpose of bringing us somewhat nearer to the perfection of our nature; it does more: in its largest acceptation, it comprehends even the indirect effects produced on character and on the human faculties, by things of which the direct purposes are quite different...
Page 469 - ... by uniting any two or more adjoining school districts, and upon such union cause a school Board to be formed for such united school district.
Page 467 - Act, the members of the board shall, in the city of London, be elected by the same persons and in like manner as common councilmen are elected, and in the other divisions of the metropolis shall be elected by the same persons and in the same manner as vestrymen, under the Metropolis Management Act, 1855, and the Acts amending the same...
Page vi - ... in its largest acceptation, it comprehends even the indirect effects produced on character and on the human faculties, by things of which the direct purposes are quite different; by laws, by forms of government, by the industrial arts, by modes of social life ; nay, even by physical f.acts, not dependent on human will; by climate, soil, and local position.