| Robert Cassie Waterston - Moral education - 1842 - 334 pages
...links between two generations, and that we must transmit all that has been given to us, and even more. Here is the replenishing of the world. Here is a new...existence. From these little children will be selected the judges and statesmen of the next half century. Thus are we the creators of a world's destiny. We... | |
| Lydia Folger Fowler - Physiology - 1851 - 112 pages
...which convey instruction as well as sound. A child can comprehend that the petals of a flower are it» leaves, and that the cuticle is the outer membrane...a magazine of energies is a little child. How many journeysacross continents, if need be, on errands of mercy, may be snugly packed away in those little... | |
| Horace Mann - Education - 1891 - 594 pages
...SPIRITUAL CULTURE," the subjoined passage occurs. Speaking of newborn children, the author says, " Here is the replenishing of the world ; here is a...existence. From these little children will be selected the judges and statesmen of the next half century. Thus are we the creators of a world's destiny; we... | |
| A. D. Mayo - History - 2001 - 340 pages
...best suited for molding the “childhood and youth of the nation,” concluded Horace Mann in 1845. “Here is the replenishing of the world; here is...existence. From these little children will be selected the judges and statesmen of the next half centuiy.” Teachers and primarily women teachers'were literally... | |
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