Report of the Board of EducationState Board of Education, 1886 - Education |
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... grade . 2. These teachers have not sufficiently well trained and dis- ciplined minds . There is much education of faculty which can only come to scholars through daily contact with a clear and orderly mind . The loss to the children of ...
... grade . 2. These teachers have not sufficiently well trained and dis- ciplined minds . There is much education of faculty which can only come to scholars through daily contact with a clear and orderly mind . The loss to the children of ...
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... grade , to which the primary schools scattered about the town would be tributary , and in which all the children of the town would be offered that full education in the studies re- quired by law , which is now practically and wrongfully ...
... grade , to which the primary schools scattered about the town would be tributary , and in which all the children of the town would be offered that full education in the studies re- quired by law , which is now practically and wrongfully ...
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... grade , the required standard must be reached in the following branches , viz : Algebra , Geometry , Book - keeping , Physiology , Physics , Physical Geography and Civil Government . A still higher grade of certificate is left for ...
... grade , the required standard must be reached in the following branches , viz : Algebra , Geometry , Book - keeping , Physiology , Physics , Physical Geography and Civil Government . A still higher grade of certificate is left for ...
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Connecticut. State Board of Education. 3. Candidates for the lower grade of certificate may at the same examination take any of the higher studies , and if success- ful in one or more , may have the result noted on lower grade ...
Connecticut. State Board of Education. 3. Candidates for the lower grade of certificate may at the same examination take any of the higher studies , and if success- ful in one or more , may have the result noted on lower grade ...
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... only primary and intermediate work . All grades below the high school are now included . The membership of the school has risen from one - hundred - thirty- five to two - hundred - sixty , in two 78 REPORT OF THE SECRETARY .
... only primary and intermediate work . All grades below the high school are now included . The membership of the school has risen from one - hundred - thirty- five to two - hundred - sixty , in two 78 REPORT OF THE SECRETARY .
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Page 263 - 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 246 - 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 36 - 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 228 - ... 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 247 - 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 87 - ... 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.
Page 264 - 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 249 - 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 88 - 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 232 - 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.