American Journal of Education and College Review, Volume 32Office of American Journal of Education, 1882 Vol. 17-24 include the circulars, reports and documents issued by the editor as commissioner of education (vol. 18 is the American year-book and register for 1869; v. 19, Special report on education in the District of Columbia). |
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... given up to the study of one thing , the child cannot always be free to observe other things going on around him . The varied sights of Nature out of doors are the best stimulus to observation , and the best preservative against the ...
... given up to the study of one thing , the child cannot always be free to observe other things going on around him . The varied sights of Nature out of doors are the best stimulus to observation , and the best preservative against the ...
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... given as to the best means of giving preliminary stimulus . When the pupil has begun a new subject , he must not , at first , be left to himself . It is not with book - tasks as it is with nature - tasks . Books do not supply ( as ...
... given as to the best means of giving preliminary stimulus . When the pupil has begun a new subject , he must not , at first , be left to himself . It is not with book - tasks as it is with nature - tasks . Books do not supply ( as ...
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... given to sedentary pursuits , it is well - especially where there are no brothers and sisters - to send him to a Kindergarten for the sake of the drill , singing , and sense - training , and to forbid all home work . 28. SPELLING . The ...
... given to sedentary pursuits , it is well - especially where there are no brothers and sisters - to send him to a Kindergarten for the sake of the drill , singing , and sense - training , and to forbid all home work . 28. SPELLING . The ...
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... given ? " ( 2 ) of the necessity of reasoning , as well as writing figures . If the pupil had reasoned before he began to write , he would have seen at once that 23 men will take less , not more , time than 5 men to 1 The Author has ...
... given ? " ( 2 ) of the necessity of reasoning , as well as writing figures . If the pupil had reasoned before he began to write , he would have seen at once that 23 men will take less , not more , time than 5 men to 1 The Author has ...
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... given . It presents very little difficulty , if ordinary fractions have been thoroughly mas- tered , and if at first the pupil is constantly reminded of the unex- pressed Denominator . ( 1 ) The Rule for the multiplication of Decimals ...
... given . It presents very little difficulty , if ordinary fractions have been thoroughly mas- tered , and if at first the pupil is constantly reminded of the unex- pressed Denominator . ( 1 ) The Rule for the multiplication of Decimals ...
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Page 285 - State which may take and claim the benefit of this act to the endowment, support, and maintenance of at least one college where the leading object shall be, without excluding other scientific and classical studies, and including military tactics, to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts...
Page 285 - That there be granted to the several States, for the purposes hereinafter mentioned, an amount of public land, to be apportioned to each State a quantity equal to thirty thousand acres for each Senator and Representative in Congress...
Page 285 - Provided, That in no case shall any State to which land scrip may thus be Issued be allowed to locate the same within the limits of any other State or of any Territory of the United States, but their assignees may thus locate said land scrip upon any of the unappropriated lands of the United States subject to sale at private entry...
Page 822 - 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 a regular gradation from township schools to a State University, wherein tuition shall be gratis, and equally open to all.
Page 511 - List his discourse of war, and you shall hear A fearful battle render'd you in music: Turn him to any cause of policy, The Gordian knot of it he will unloose, Familiar as his garter...
Page 516 - Still o'er these scenes my memory wakes, And fondly broods with miser care ; Time but the impression stronger makes, As streams their channels deeper wear.
Page 285 - State to which land scrip may thus be issued be allowed to locate the same within the limits of any other State or of any Territory of the United States, but their assignees may thus locate said land scrip upon any of the unappropriated lands of the United States subject to sale at private entry at one dollar and twenty-five cents, or less, per acre...
Page 778 - Promote, then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened.
Page 285 - ... the interest of which shall be inviolably appropriated, by each state which mav take and claim the benefit of this act, to the endowment, support, and maintenance of at least one college...
Page 526 - But as young men, when they knit and shape perfectly, do seldom grow to a further stature ; so knowledge, while it is in aphorisms and observations, it is in growth : but when it once is comprehended in exact methods, it may perchance be further polished and illustrated and accommodated for use and practice ; but it increaseth no more in bulk and substance.