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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... School Fund , 29 District Tax , 30 Town Tax , 30 State Tax , 31 Expenses , 31 Enumeration and Attendance , 32-35 Report of the Agent , 35-54 Small Schools , 54 Teachers ' Meetings , 54-59 State Examinations , 59-66 Normal School , 66-75 ...
... School Fund , 29 District Tax , 30 Town Tax , 30 State Tax , 31 Expenses , 31 Enumeration and Attendance , 32-35 Report of the Agent , 35-54 Small Schools , 54 Teachers ' Meetings , 54-59 State Examinations , 59-66 Normal School , 66-75 ...
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... 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 - Recipients of Library Money , 179-182 ...
... 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 - Recipients of Library Money , 179-182 ...
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... School also . The trouble with many teachers is that they have never had any education at all except what they have picked up in their own poor district school , where bad methods are perpetuated from generation to generation . 3. The ...
... School also . The trouble with many teachers is that they have never had any education at all except what they have picked up in their own poor district school , where bad methods are perpetuated from generation to generation . 3. The ...
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... SCHOOL ADMINISTRATION . We have had the less hesitation in frankly telling facts as they are because of our ... district - meeting , and between school - visitors and district- committees we have vitally impaired and paralyzed the self ...
... SCHOOL ADMINISTRATION . We have had the less hesitation in frankly telling facts as they are because of our ... district - meeting , and between school - visitors and district- committees we have vitally impaired and paralyzed the self ...
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... district - meetings to town - meetings and to unite the powers of school - visitors and district - committees in the hands of a town - committee composed and elected as is now the board of school - visitors . Such a change would tend to ...
... district - meetings to town - meetings and to unite the powers of school - visitors and district - committees in the hands of a town - committee composed and elected as is now the board of school - visitors . Such a change would tend to ...
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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.