Annual Report of the Commissioners ..., Volume 36

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1870
 

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Page 691 - All the interior angles of any rectilineal figure, together with four right angles, are equal to twice as many right angles as the figure has sides.
Page 41 - Commissioners in their corporate capacity, such pastors or sionen. other persons as shall be approved of by the parents or guardians of the children respectively, shall have access to them in the School-room, for the purpose of giving them religious instruction...
Page 691 - Know then this truth (enough for man to know) 'Virtue alone is happiness below.
Page 40 - School shall be open to children of all communions ; that due regard be had to parental right and authority ; that, accordingly, no child shall receive or be present at any religious instruction of which his parents or guardians disapprove ; and that the time for giving it be so fixed, that no child shall be thereby, in effect, excluded, directly or indirectly, from the other advantages which the school affords.
Page 41 - Book of Sacred Poetry' being read in any of the national schools, nor do they allow them to be read as part of the ordinary school business...
Page 43 - ... bless those that cursed them, and to pray for those who persecuted them. He himself prayed for his murderers. Many men hold erroneous doctrines, but we ought not to hate or persecute them. We ought to...
Page 43 - If any other books than the Holy Scriptures, or the standard books of the church to which the children using them belong, are employed in communicating religious instruction, the title of each is to be made known to the Commissioners.
Page 50 - The Commissioners regard the attendance of any of their Teachers at meetings held for political purposes, or their taking part in elections for Members of Parliament, or for Poor Law Guardians, &c., except by voting, as incompatible with the performance of their duties, and as a violation of rule which will render them liable to dismissal.
Page 40 - Instruction," printed in large characters, on a form to be supplied by the Commissioners. 6. When the secular instruction precedes the religious instruction, in any National School, there shall be a sufficient interval between the announcement and the commencement of the religious instruction ; and whether the religious or the secular instruction shall have priority in any National School, the books used for the instruction first in order, shall be carefully laid aside, at its termination, in the...
Page 50 - ... should not only possess the art of communicating knowledge, but be capable of moulding the mind of youth, and of giving to the power which education confers a useful direction. These are the qualities for which Patrons of Schools, when making choice of Teachers, should anxiously look. They are those which the Commissioners are anxious to find, to encourage, and to reward.

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