The Making of Our Middle Schools: An Account of the Development of Secondary Education in the United States |
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... higher life of the people . The first is the spirit of protest against European institutions , which many of the colonists brought with them from their old home ; the second is the ever 6 THE MAKING OF OUR MIDDLE SCHOOLS.
... higher life of the people . The first is the spirit of protest against European institutions , which many of the colonists brought with them from their old home ; the second is the ever 6 THE MAKING OF OUR MIDDLE SCHOOLS.
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... spirit of humanism is clearly present , although the good Dean still hesitated to put heathen authors into the hands of the pupils . His reference to Cicero and others of the masters of classical Latin may have contained a hint that he ...
... spirit of humanism is clearly present , although the good Dean still hesitated to put heathen authors into the hands of the pupils . His reference to Cicero and others of the masters of classical Latin may have contained a hint that he ...
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... spirits were to be found in it . In 1678 , Christopher Wase , an Oxford man , published his little book on Free schools in England . It was intended to answer the question , then frequently raised , " whether the English Free Grammar ...
... spirits were to be found in it . In 1678 , Christopher Wase , an Oxford man , published his little book on Free schools in England . It was intended to answer the question , then frequently raised , " whether the English Free Grammar ...
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... spirit , was already abroad , and Wase undertook to answer it . " Morality , " so the argument runs , " the Law written in our hearts needed not to have bin learn'd out of Books . . . But the Doctrine of Faith being an engrafted word ...
... spirit , was already abroad , and Wase undertook to answer it . " Morality , " so the argument runs , " the Law written in our hearts needed not to have bin learn'd out of Books . . . But the Doctrine of Faith being an engrafted word ...
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... spirit with conscio ference to the ancient usage . Professor Basil Sollers has shown that it was commonly used merely " as a compound name indicating a certain grade of instruction , such as we would 1 call ' liberal , ' without ...
... spirit with conscio ference to the ancient usage . Professor Basil Sollers has shown that it was commonly used merely " as a compound name indicating a certain grade of instruction , such as we would 1 call ' liberal , ' without ...
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Page 220 - It shall be the duty of the general assembly, as soon as circumstances will permit, to provide by law for a general system of education, ascending in regular gradation, from township schools to a state university, wherein tuition shall be gratis, and equally open to all.
Page 50 - I thank God, there are no free schools nor printing, and I hope we shall not have these hundred years. For learning has brought disobedience and heresy, and sects into the world, and printing has divulged them, and libels against the best government. God keep us from both"!
Page 157 - But because our understanding cannot in this body found itself- but on sensible things, nor arrive so clearly to the knowledge of God and things invisible, as by orderly conning over the visible and inferior creature, the same method is necessarily to be followed in all discreet teaching.
Page 343 - ... that all the instructors and teachers in the college shall take pains to instil into the minds of the scholars, the purest principles of morality, so that, on their entrance into active life, they may, from inclination and habit, evince benevolence towards their fellow-creatures, and a love of truth, sobriety, and industry, adopting at the same time such religious tenets as their matured reason may enable them to prefer.
Page 445 - Here, work enough to watch The Master work, and catch Hints of the proper craft, tricks of the tool's true play.
Page 299 - A parent, who wishes to give a child an education that shall fit him for active life, and shall serve as a foundation for eminence in his profession, whether Mercantile or Mechanical, is under the necessity of giving him a different education from any which our public schools can now furnish.
Page 159 - The end, then, of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him as we may the nearest by possessing our souls of true virtue, which being united to the heavenly grace of faith makes up the highest perfection.
Page 343 - I enjoin and require that no ecclesiastic, missionary, or minister of any sect whatsoever shall ever hold or exercise any station or duty whatever in the said college ; nor shall any such person ever be admitted for any purpose, or as a visitor, within the premises appropriated to the purposes of the said college.
Page 181 - ... an inclination, joined with an ability, to serve mankind, one's country, friends, and family ; which ability is, with the blessing of God, to be acquired or greatly increased by true learning ; and should, indeed, be the great aim and end of all learning.
Page 195 - LIVING ... it is again declared that the first and •principal object of this Institution is the promotion of TRUE PIETY and VIRTUE; the second, instruction in the English, Latin, and Greek Languages, together with Writing, Arithmetic, Music, and the Art of Speaking; the third, practical Geometry, Logic, and Geography; and the fourth, such other liberal Arts and Sciences or Languages, as opportunity and ability may hereafter admit, and as the TRUSTEES shall direct.