Report of the Board of Trustees of Public Schools of the City of WashingtonBoard of Trustees of Public Schools, 1888 - Education |
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... learning and growth , of other and equally valuable privileges afforded outside the school . The teacher should know the value of sequence , continuity , and de- termined effort , and should seek to impress their importance upon the ...
... learning and growth , of other and equally valuable privileges afforded outside the school . The teacher should know the value of sequence , continuity , and de- termined effort , and should seek to impress their importance upon the ...
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... learning the care and management of the fire and the shifting of belts , forging is introduced by heating and drawing to a point a square rod of iron . This shows the value of care and attention in the performance of the simplest tasks ...
... learning the care and management of the fire and the shifting of belts , forging is introduced by heating and drawing to a point a square rod of iron . This shows the value of care and attention in the performance of the simplest tasks ...
Page 98
... learning in this city . In theory it aims to make an investigation of the different branches taught in the public schools , as well as a study of the philosophy of education and of the history of education . This investigation of the ...
... learning in this city . In theory it aims to make an investigation of the different branches taught in the public schools , as well as a study of the philosophy of education and of the history of education . This investigation of the ...
Page 124
... learning the names and uses of various tools used in carpentry , each pupil was given a piece of lumber 12 inches long , 2 inches wide , and 1 inch thick , to be dressed in an even thickness and width , and these pieces were then made ...
... learning the names and uses of various tools used in carpentry , each pupil was given a piece of lumber 12 inches long , 2 inches wide , and 1 inch thick , to be dressed in an even thickness and width , and these pieces were then made ...
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... learning to read . Such pupils re- quire more time and attention . It would be eminently wise , in my judg ment , to give them more time and attention by increasing the length of the school day . I believe , also , that most parents ...
... learning to read . Such pupils re- quire more time and attention . It would be eminently wise , in my judg ment , to give them more time and attention by increasing the length of the school day . I believe , also , that most parents ...
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Page 74 - That the unappropriated lands that may be ceded or relinquished to the United States, by any particular State, pursuant to the recommendation of Congress 421 of the 6th day of September last, shall be disposed of for the common benefit of the United States...
Page 79 - often and often in the course of the session, and the vicissitudes of my hopes and fears as to its issue, looked at that behind the president without being able to tell whether it was rising or setting. But now at length I have the happiness to know that it is a rising and not a setting sun.
Page 74 - We are convinced policy and justice require that a country unsettled at the commencement of this war, claimed by the British crown, and ceded to it by the treaty of Paris, if wrested from the common enemy by the blood and treasure of the thirteen states, should be considered as a common property, subject to be parcelled out by Congress into free, convenient and independent governments, in such manner and at such times as the wisdom of that assembly shall hereafter direct.
Page 82 - It is therefore ordered, That every township in this jurisdiction, after the Lord hath increased them to the number of fifty householders, shall then forthwith appoint one within their town to teach all such children as shall resort to him to write and read...
Page 68 - ... being ready with their clubs, to beat out his brains, Pocahontas, the king's dearest daughter, when no entreaty could prevail, got his head in her arms, and laid her own upon his to save him from death: whereat the emperor was contented he should live to make him hatchets, and her bells, beads, and copper; for they thought him as well of all occupations as themselves.
Page 75 - Ammunition to be supplied in the same way. 11. That a constitution for the new state be formed by the members of the association previous to their commencing the settlement, two-thirds of the associators present at a meeting duly notified for that purpose agreeing therein. The total exclusion of slavery from the state to form an essential and irrevocable part of the constitution.
Page 75 - I doubt whether one single law of any lawgiver, ancient or modern, has produced effects of more distinct, marked, and lasting character than the Ordinance of 1787.
Page 70 - Rest is not quitting The busy career; Rest is the fitting Of self to its sphere.
Page 64 - I see one vast confederation stretching from the frozen North in unbroken line to the glowing South, and from the wild billows of the Atlantic westward to the calmer waters of the Pacific main,— and I see one people, and one language, and one law, and one faith, and, over all that wide continent, the home of freedom, and a refuge for the oppressed of every race and of every clime.
Page 82 - There shall be reserved the lot No. 16, of every township, for the maintenance of public schools, within the said township...