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... town meeting reported , March 13 , 1709-10 , recom- mending the appointment of a board of inspectors of the Free Grammar School , i.e. , the Latin School , " Agreeably to the Usage in England . " Quoted in MR . JENKS'S Historical sketch ...
... town meeting reported , March 13 , 1709-10 , recom- mending the appointment of a board of inspectors of the Free Grammar School , i.e. , the Latin School , " Agreeably to the Usage in England . " Quoted in MR . JENKS'S Historical sketch ...
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... town , the younger sons of the nobility and farmers , the lesser landholders , the pros- perous tradesmen . " 1 His comments on the teaching of Latin in these schools , and more particularly on the number of occupations in which Latin ...
... town , the younger sons of the nobility and farmers , the lesser landholders , the pros- perous tradesmen . " 1 His comments on the teaching of Latin in these schools , and more particularly on the number of occupations in which Latin ...
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... town of Rotherham , separate provi- sion appears for a grammar school , a song school , and a writing school . At a ... towns . Philoponus is a reformer of methods , to whom Spoudeus comes as to an old friend , for encouragement and ...
... town of Rotherham , separate provi- sion appears for a grammar school , a song school , and a writing school . At a ... towns . Philoponus is a reformer of methods , to whom Spoudeus comes as to an old friend , for encouragement and ...
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... Town of England , " in which the children of the town are to receive instruction free of charge . But he declares , on the other hand , that some counties are not well supplied with free schools in actual operation ; that at the best ...
... Town of England , " in which the children of the town are to receive instruction free of charge . But he declares , on the other hand , that some counties are not well supplied with free schools in actual operation ; that at the best ...
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... town meeting . It was " born at sunrise , " to use the words of Phillips Brooks , " dating its life from the days when an order of things , which is to exist for a long time in the world , is in the freshness of its youth . " 2 The bare ...
... town meeting . It was " born at sunrise , " to use the words of Phillips Brooks , " dating its life from the days when an order of things , which is to exist for a long time in the world , is in the freshness of its youth . " 2 The bare ...
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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.