Report of the Board of Education of the State of Connecticut to the Governor: Together with the Report of the Secretary of the BoardLockwood & Brainard Company, 1886 |
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... General Remarks , APPENDIX , 88-100 * 101 * 102 * Statistical Tables , Explanations , Receipts and Expenses , 101-336 102-182 111 , * 112 * 102-118 APPENDIX : Pages Scholars , 119-127 Teachers , 128-135 Schools 130723.
... General Remarks , APPENDIX , 88-100 * 101 * 102 * Statistical Tables , Explanations , Receipts and Expenses , 101-336 102-182 111 , * 112 * 102-118 APPENDIX : Pages Scholars , 119-127 Teachers , 128-135 Schools 130723.
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... Scholars , 119-127 Teachers , 128-135 Schools , School Houses and Libraries , 136-152 Comparative Enumeration , 153-160 Enumeration by Districts , 1885 , 161-172 Amount paid for Libraries , - 173 Expense of Smaller Schools , 174-178 Non ...
... Scholars , 119-127 Teachers , 128-135 Schools , School Houses and Libraries , 136-152 Comparative Enumeration , 153-160 Enumeration by Districts , 1885 , 161-172 Amount paid for Libraries , - 173 Expense of Smaller Schools , 174-178 Non ...
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... scholars he will not be likely to give them what they really need , or to give that little well . But many teachers have no general information at all . They are not familiar even with the common school branches they are undertaking to ...
... scholars he will not be likely to give them what they really need , or to give that little well . But many teachers have no general information at all . They are not familiar even with the common school branches they are undertaking to ...
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... scholars through daily contact with a clear and orderly mind . The loss to the children of the State in missing the influences which fairly lucid and logical ways of thought and expression in the teachers would exert upon the scholars ...
... scholars through daily contact with a clear and orderly mind . The loss to the children of the State in missing the influences which fairly lucid and logical ways of thought and expression in the teachers would exert upon the scholars ...
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... scholars will learn to read with animation and expression . This is a good way of teaching reading . Now the way in use in very many of our schools is to let the scholars pronounce words consecutively and monotonously until they reach a ...
... scholars will learn to read with animation and expression . This is a good way of teaching reading . Now the way in use in very many of our schools is to let the scholars pronounce words consecutively and monotonously until they reach a ...
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Page 247 - HE clasps the crag with crooked hands ; Close to the sun in lonely lands, Ring'd with the azure world, he stands. The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls ; He watches from his mountain walls, And like a thunderbolt he falls.
Page 261 - The sun that brief December day Rose cheerless over hills of gray, And, darkly circled, gave at noon A sadder light than waning moon. Slow tracing down the thickening sky Its mute and ominous prophecy, A portent seeming less than threat, It sank from sight before it set. A chill no coat, however stout, Of homespun stuff could quite shut out...
Page 244 - THIS is that which I think great readers are apt to be mistaken in. Those who have read of everything are thought to understand everything too ; but it is not always so. Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge : it is thinking makes what we read ours. We are of the ruminating kind, and it is not enough to cram ourselves with a great load of collections; unless we chew them over again, they will not give us strength and nourishment.
Page 34 - It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to employ any child under fourteen years of age, in any business or service whatever, during any part of the term during which the public schools of the district in which the child resides are in session...
Page 226 - ... that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute a new government, laying its foundations on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.
Page 245 - Most potent, grave, and reverend signiors, My very noble and approved good masters, — That I have ta'en away this old man's daughter, It is most true ; true, I have married her ; The very head and front of my offending Hath this extent, no more. Rude am I in my speech, And little bless'd with the set phrase of peace ; For since these arms of mine had seven years...
Page 262 - With mittened hands, and caps drawn low, To guard our necks and ears from snow, We cut the solid whiteness through. And, where the drift was deepest, made A tunnel walled and overlaid...
Page 86 - Said penalty shall not be incurred when it appears that the child is destitute of clothing suitable for attending school, and the parent or person having control of such child is unable to provide such clothing, or its mental or physical condition is such as to render its instruction inexpedient or impracticable.
Page 230 - Else why so swell the thoughts at your Aspect above ? Ye must be Heavens that make us sure Of heavenly love ! And in your harmony sublime ' I 'read the doom of distant time ; That man's regenerate soul from crime Shall yet be drawn, And reason on his mortal clime Immortal dawn.
Page 34 - ... nor exempt any child who is enrolled as a member of a school from any rule concerning irregularity of attendance which has been enacted or may be enacted by the town school committee, board of school visitors, or board of education, having control of the school.