Lectures on EducationMarsh, Capen, Lyon and Webb, 1840 - 62 من الصفحات Tharp collection. |
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الصفحة 31 - You may break, you may shatter the vase, if you will, But the scent of the roses will hang round it still.
الصفحة 3 - Board, collect information of the actual condition and efficiency of the Common Schools, and other means of popular education, and diffuse as widely as possible, throughout every part of the Commonwealth, information of the most approved and successful methods of arranging the studies and conducting the education of the young...
الصفحة 58 - The theory of our government is, — not that all men, however unfit,, shall be voters, — but that every man, by the power ' of reason and the sense of duty, shall become fit to be a voter.
الصفحة 58 - Education must prepare our citizens to become municipal officers, intelligent jurors, honest witnesses, legislators, or competent judges of legislation — in fine, to fill all the manifold relations of life.
الصفحة 16 - In this Commonwealth, there are about three thousand Public Schools, in all of which the rudiments of knowledge are taught. These schools, at the present time, are so many distinct, independent communities, each being governed by its own habits, traditions, and local customs. There is no common, superintending power over them ; there is no bond of brotherhood or family between them. They are strangers and aliens to each other.
الصفحة 57 - Nature, at all comparable to that vast influx of power which comes into the world with every incoming generation of children? Each embryo life is more wonderful than the globe it is sent to inhabit, and more glorious than the sun upon which it first opens its eyes. Each one of these millions, with a fitting education, is capable of adding something to the sum of human happiness, and of subtracting something from the sum of human misery; and many great souls amongst them there are, who may become...
الصفحة 41 - They were then asked, by a visiter, some general questions respecting their lesson, and, amongst others, whether they had ever seen the earth about which they had been reciting ; and they unanimously declared, in good faith, that they never had.