Graded Schools in the United States of AmericaS. Sonnenschein, 1894 - 71 pages |
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Page 3 - Nature never did betray The heart that loved her; 'tis her privilege, Through all the years of this our life, to lead From joy to joy: for she can so inform The mind that is within us, so impress With quietness and beauty, and so feed With lofty thoughts, that neither evil tongues, Rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, Nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all The dreary intercourse of daily life, Shall e'er prevail against...
Page 4 - And instead of this, there is not a moment of any day of our lives, when nature is not producing scene after scene, picture after picture, glory after glory, and working still upon such exquisite and constant principles of the most perfect beauty, that it is quite certain it is all done for us, and intended for our perpetual pleasure.
Page 2 - ... such exercises as shall tend to encourage the planting, protection and preservation of trees and shrubs, and an acquaintance with the best methods to be adopted to accomplish such results.
Page 20 - The State board of education is hereby authorized to grant State diplomas to such teachers as may be found to possess the requisite scholarship and culture, and who may exhibit satisfactory evidence of a moral character, and whose eminent professional ability has been established by not less than two years' successful teaching in the public schools of the State.
Page 19 - No .district board shall employ any person to teach in any of the public schools of the state, unless such person shall have a license to teach, issued from the proper county or state authority, and in full force at the date of employment...
Page 19 - If the applicant is to teach in a school of high grade, the examination shall extend to such additional branches of study as are to be pursued in such school. If satisfied of the competency to teach and of the good moral character of the applicant, he shall give such applicant a certificate, as provided in the following section...
Page 11 - To insure modesty, I would advise the education of the sexes together ; for two boys will preserve twelve girls, or two girls twelve boys, innocent amidst winks, jokes, and improprieties, merely by that instinctive' sense which is the forerunner of matured modesty. But I will guarantee nothing in a school where girls are alone together, and still less when boys are.
Page 14 - ... (3) A more sound and healthy development of both sexes; in support of which it is asserted that " schools kept exclusively for girls or boys, require a much more strict surveillance on the part of the teachers. The girls confined by themselves, develop the sexual tension much earlier, their imagination being the reigning faculty, and not bridled by intercourse with society in its normal form. So it is with the boys, on the other hand.
Page 2 - The state superintendent of public instruction shall have power to prescribe from time to time a course of exercises and instruction in the subjects hereinbefore mentioned, which shall be adopted and observed by the public school authorities on arbor day, and upon receipt of copies of such course sufficient in number to supply all the schools under their supervision, the school commissioner or city superintendent aforesaid shall promptly provide each of the schools under his or their charge with...