The Administration of Professional Schools for Teachers

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Warwick & York, Incorporated, 1924 - 262 pages
 

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Page 168 - The publication must be made once a week for three successive weeks, in a newspaper published...
Page 71 - IF there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies, 2 Fulfil ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind.
Page 71 - For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature. And as many as walk according to this rule, peace be on them, and mercy, and upon the Israel of God.
Page 65 - ... particular dogma in religion. In the second place, if Prussia can pervert the benign influences of education to the support of arbitrary power, we surely can employ them for the support and perpetuation of republican institutions. A national spirit of liberty can be cultivated more easily than a national spirit of bondage ; and if it may be made one of the great prerogatives of education to perform the unnatural and unholy work of making slaves, then surely it must be one of the noblest instrumentalities...
Page 158 - Academy, under the rules and regulations prescribed as aforesaid, whose duty it shall be to make detailed reports to the said Board of Education, and, among other things, to recommend the rules and regulations which they deem necessary and proper for the said Academy.
Page 71 - Principal ; but the ago of the pupils, the objects which bring them to a Normal School, and the spirit of the Institution itself, will, it is believed, dispense with the necessity of a code of rules.
Page 32 - An institution for the education of teachers, as has been before intimated, would form a part, and a very important part, of the free-school system. It would be, moreover, precisely that portion of the system which should be under the direction of the State, whether the others are or not. Because we should thus secure at once, a uniform, intelligent, and independent tribunal for decisions on the qualifications of teachers. Because we should thus relieve the clergy of an invidious task, and insure...
Page 59 - The State Normal School, then, is not an institution for general culture for its own sake; it is a special school — a professional school. Its sole purpose is to confer on its students that education, discipline, professional training and practical skill which will best fit them for teaching in the public schools of Indiana. The school limits its attention and work to this one thing — the preparation of teachers for teaching in the common schools of Indiana.
Page 70 - ... first pronounces the morning benediction, and each pupil then occupies himself in silence till six If any repetitions stand over from the preceding day, they must be heard now. After this, breakfast. In winter, as well as in summer, the lessons begin at six o'clock, and last till a quarter before eight. Then the students go with their master to the children's school, attached to the Normal School, where they remain till ten, either listening, or assisting in teaching some small classes ; or they...
Page 71 - Order in behavior and in work, combined with the utmost simplicity in all things ; to the end that the students who Belong to the poorer classes, and" whose destiny it is to be teachers of the poor, may willingly continue in that condition, and may not learn to know wants and wishes which they will not, and ought not to have the power i>f satisfying.

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