Normal Schools, and Other Institutions, Agencies, and Means Designed for the Professional Education of Teachers

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Case, Tiffany, 1851
 

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Página 64 - And the breath came into them, and they lived and stood upon their feet, (not on those of any author) an exceeding great army." God prosper the work, and may your exertions in the cause be gratefully remembered.
Página 160 - Christianity itself must await the time when knowledge shall be diffused among men through the instrumentality of good schools. Coiled up in this institution, as in a spring, there is a vigor whose uncoiling may wheel the spheres. I hold, sir, in my hand, a paper, which contains the origin, the source, the punctum saliens, of the Normal Schools of Massachusetts.
Página 91 - express the cruelty or folly of that economy, which, to leave a fortune to a child, starves his intellect, impoverishes his heart." ****** " We know not how society can be aided more than by the formation of a body of wise and efficient educators. We know not any class which would contribute
Página 100 - Teachers' Seminary and model-school, for the instruction and practice of teachers in the science of education and the art of teaching. To begin with the first proposition. If there be necessity for such an institution, there can be little doubt that the legislature should patronize and sustain it; for, new as our country is, and numerous
Página 23 - a statement of the condition of the common schools of the state, plans and suggestions for the improvement and better organization of the common school system, and all such matters relating to his office and to the interests of education as he shall deem expedient to communicate. SEC. 2. That the Superintendent appointed by virtue hereof be, and he is hereby
Página 117 - A military man of great influence once urged Dinter to recommend a disabled soldier, in whom he was interested, as a school-teacher. " I will do so," says Dinter, " if he sustains the requisite examination." " 0," says the Colonel, " he doesn't know much about school-teaching, but he is a good, moral, steady man, and I
Página 166 - whereof grievous complaint is made." It then provides for the redress of these evils, and enacts that the penalties for future neglect shall be doubled; that every grammarmaster shall be approved by the minister of the town and the ministers of two adjoining towns, or any two of them; that no minister of any town
Página 166 - But then, as now, there were enlightened men whose zeal and intelligence were in advance of their age. The act of 1701,f after reciting the former act, proceeds as follows: " The observance of which wholesome and necessary law is shamefully neglected by divers towns, and the penalty thereof not required, tending greatly to the nourishment of ignorance and
Página 153 - Multiplication is vexation, Division is as bad, The rule of three doth puzzle me, And practice makes me mad." But if proper care be taken that every step be thoroughly understood before
Página 8 - Act to provide for the better supervision of Common Schools," creating a Board of Commissioners, with a Secretary, who was " to devote his whole time to ascertain the condition, increase the interest, and promote the usefulness of common schools,

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