School Architecture; Or, Contributions to the Improvement of School-houses in the United States

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A. S. Barnes & Company; Cincinnati : H. W. Derby & Company, 1848 - Всего страниц: 381
 

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Стр. 166 - ... and it is further ordered, that where any town shall increase to the number of one hundred families or householders they shall set up a grammar school, the master thereof being able to instruct youth so far as they may be fitted for the university...
Стр. 128 - ... examination and the terms and conditions on which pupils shall be received and instructed therein, the number of pupils from the respective cities and counties, conforming as nearly as may be to the ratio of population, to fix the location of the said school...
Стр. 322 - The Lord is the portion of mine inheritance, and of my cup, Thou maintainest my lot : and, on the justest grounds, he immediately adds, The lines have fallen to me in pleasant places ; yea, I have a goodly heritage.
Стр. 166 - It was then generally agreed upon, that our brother Philemon Purmont shall be instructed to become schoolmaster for the teaching and nurturing of children with us.
Стр. 321 - I call this a good education. And if you add the ability to write pure grammatical English, I regard it as an excellent education. These are the tools. You can do much with them, but you are helpless without them. They are the foundation; and unless you begin with these, all your flashy attainments, a little geology, and all other ologies and osophies, are ostentatious rubbish.
Стр. 16 - In 1837, not one third part of the Public School-houses in Massachusetts would have been considered tenantable by any decent family, out of the poor-house, or in it...
Стр. 129 - ... for the instruction and practice of teachers of common schools in the science of education and in the art of teaching, to be located in the county of Albany.
Стр. 126 - ... teaching ; and who should come under strong obligations to teach for at least two or three years. In Prussia and France, normal schools are supported at the public expense ; most of the pupils receive both board and tuition gratuitously ; but at the close of the course they give bonds to refund the whole amount received, unless they teach under the direction of the government for a certain number of years. That such schools, devoted exclusively to the preparation of...
Стр. 130 - ... subjected to a thorough examination, and are classified according to their previous attainments. The time required to accomplish the course will depend upon the attainments and talents of the pupil, varying from one to four terms. Very few, however, can expect to graduate in one term. PRIVILEGES or THE PUPILS.
Стр. 321 - I hold, sir, that to read the English language well, that is with intelligence, feeling, spirit, and effect ; - to write with dispatch, a neat, handsome. legible hand, (for it is after all. a great object in writing to have others able to read what you write.) and to be master of the four rules of arithmetic, so as to dispose at once with accuracy of every question of figures which comes up in practical life : — I say I call this a good education ; and if you add the ability to write pure grammatical...

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