Report of the Roman Catholic Schools of Newfoundland

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Página v - States from $80 to $100 for salaries and maintenance, instead of $17.36 as now/ Is it not obvious that instead of providing in the public schools a teacher for forty or fifty pupils, they would provide a teacher for every ten or fifteen pupils? Would there not be a playground around every schoolhouse? If the American people thought they could afford it, would not a schoolhouse be kept in as perfect sanitary condition as a hospital?
Página v - Again, our schools and colleges have been trying to prepare their pupils for a subsequent life out in a world which has itself been shifting and changing with an unprecedented rapidity. The life for which the American schools should now prepare their pupils is an utterly different life from that for which the schools were preparing the children forty years ago — or even twenty years ago. All the scenes have shifted within a single generation. The younger people in this hall can hardly imagine the...
Página 44 - Standard I. Standard II. Standard III. Standard IV. Standard V. Standard VI. •„" This Series has been abridged from the "Globe Readers" to meet the demand for smaller reading books.
Página v - ... to offset this gradual improvement, new centers or sources of infection are constantly created, such as crowded street-cars, populous tenement houses, unventilated public halls, thronged eating houses and workrooms, filthy paper money, and the fouled water supply, celery bed, oyster bed, or dairy. The whole world has been made over since 1850, and with many new powers for good there have come in many new powers for evil. We have today telephones, telegraphs, submarine cables, the great ocean...
Página v - American schools and colleges have had to readjust themselves incessantly to these sweeping changes in the condition of society; and it is not to be wondered at if they have often failed to keep pace with the raised steps of this wonderful transformation.
Página xiv - ... of July, not being a Sunday, shall be a legal holiday, and shall holiday. be kept and observed as such, under the name of Dominion Day.
Página v - ... and buildings being in each case deducted from the total expenditure. Is it not plain that if the American people were all well-to-do they would multiply by four or five the present average school expenditure per child and per year ? That is, they would make the average expenditure per pupil for the whole school year in the United States from eighty to one hundred dollars for salaries and maintenance, instead of 8 17.
Página v - State by the public opinion of the other States. He interprets the opinion of his nation by the public opinion of foreign nations. Thus there goes on in the mind of each citizen a comparative study of public opinion, the readjustment of local opinion and sentiment to the aggregate of public opinion and sentiment of States and nations. The general public opinion of the world is a kind of ' writing on the wall,' in which the individual, or the particular section, sees that local or partial views are...
Página v - Le is able to make a memorandum of the errors. " But it is still more important for a free government that its inhabitants are able to read and write. The free government must be a government chiefly of popular opinion, and popular opinion cannot govern effectively except through the newspaper and the book. There must be a means by which the individual learns every day to know the opinions of his fellow men near and far. He interprets the opinion of his fellow-citizens whom he meets from day to day...
Página 33 - The petitioner states his full conviction that there would have been no objection on the part of the parents to send their children to school...

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