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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... interest and quickened power of observation . And so of trees : to learn the characteristics of an oak or an elm separately is rather dull work ; but to note the differences between them is more interesting and appeals more readily to ...
... interest and quickened power of observation . And so of trees : to learn the characteristics of an oak or an elm separately is rather dull work ; but to note the differences between them is more interesting and appeals more readily to ...
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... interest in things by learning the How and Why . Drawing is of course a powerful developer of this faculty ; but draw- ing , at the present stage , is out of the question . Let it only be added that for observation , as well as for ...
... interest in things by learning the How and Why . Drawing is of course a powerful developer of this faculty ; but draw- ing , at the present stage , is out of the question . Let it only be added that for observation , as well as for ...
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... interests of the greatest number , slightly sacrificing the very dull , and still more the very clever , for the sake ... interest in it , and making rapid progress , it is well to take advantage of this tide and to increase considerably ...
... interests of the greatest number , slightly sacrificing the very dull , and still more the very clever , for the sake ... interest in it , and making rapid progress , it is well to take advantage of this tide and to increase considerably ...
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... interest , than what they try to remember with a conscious strain . Very often a child will remember 8 times or 9 times better if he is allowed to write it out or print it in large colored figures ; or should he find a difficulty in ...
... interest , than what they try to remember with a conscious strain . Very often a child will remember 8 times or 9 times better if he is allowed to write it out or print it in large colored figures ; or should he find a difficulty in ...
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... interest of botany with something of the interest of logic . The following are the principles on which a child should be taught how to tell the Parts of Speech : 1. The pupil must be taught by experiment , i.e. , experimenting with ...
... interest of botany with something of the interest of logic . The following are the principles on which a child should be taught how to tell the Parts of Speech : 1. The pupil must be taught by experiment , i.e. , experimenting with ...
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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.