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" No man ever yet made intellectual progress without intellectual labor. It is this alone that can strengthen and invigorate the noble faculties with which we are endowed. However much we may regret that we do not live a century later, because we... "
Annual Report - Page 27
by Chicago (Ill.). Board of Education - 1860
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Prize Essay and Lectures, Delivered Before the American Institute ..., Volume 23

American Institute of Instruction - Education - 1853 - 228 pages
...mental discipline and the acquisition of knowledge. The highest and most important of these objects is mental discipline, or the power of using the mind...advantage. The price of this discipline is effort. No man ever yet made intellectual progress without intellectual labor. It is this alone that can strengthen...
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Annual Meeting: Proceedings, Constitution, List of Active Members, and Addresses

American Institute of Instruction - 1853 - 228 pages
...mental discipline and the acquisition of knowledge. The highest and most important of these objects is mental discipline, or the power of using the mind...advantage. The price of this discipline is effort. No man ever yet made intellectual progress without intellectual labor. It is this alone that can strengthen...
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The Massachusetts Teacher: A Journal of School and Home Education, Volume 8

Education - 1855 - 396 pages
...mental discipline and the acquisition of knowledge. The highest and most important of these objects is mental discipline, or the power of using the mind...advantage. The price of this discipline is effort. No man yet ever made intellectual progress without intellectual labor. It is this alone that can strengthen...
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American Journal of Education and College Review, Volume 8

Education - 1860 - 718 pages
...which his own life was governed, and which he never failed to inculcate in the minds of his pupils. The highest and most important object of intellectual...of this discipline is effort. No scholar ever yet mude intellectual pi-ogress without intellectual labor. It is this alone that can strengthen and invigorate...
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The American Journal of Education, Volume 8

Henry Barnard - Education - 1860 - 720 pages
...which his own life was governed, and which he never failed to inculcate in the minds of his pupils. The highest and most important object of intellectual education, is mental discipline, or tlie power of using the mind to the best advantage. The price of this discipline is effort. No scholar...
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The American Journal of Education, Volume 8

Henry Barnard - Education - 1860 - 726 pages
...which his own life was governed, and which he never failed to inculcate in the minds of his pupils. The highest and most important object of intellectual education, is mental discipline, or tin.- power of using the mind to the best advantage. The price of this discipline is effort. No scholar...
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The Graded School: A Graded Course of Instruction for Public Schools: with ...

William Harvey Wells - Ability grouping in education - 1862 - 240 pages
...mental discipline and the acquisition of knowledge. The highest and most important of these objects is mental discipline, or the power of using the mind...advantage. The price of this discipline is effort. No man ever yet made intellectual progress without intellectual labor. It is this alone that can strengthen...
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The Graded School: A Graded Course of Instruction for Public Schools: with ...

William Harvey Wells - Public schools - 1877 - 270 pages
...mental discipline and the acquisition of knowledge. The highest and most important of these objects is mental discipline, or the power of using the mind...advantage. The price of this discipline is effort. No man ever yet made intellectual progress without intellectual labor. It is this alone that can strengthen...
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The Origins of the American High School

William J. Reese - History - 1999 - 354 pages
...Wells, author of an influential guide to school organization and graded classrooms, argued in i86o that “the highest and most important object of intellectual...the power of using the mind to the best advantage?' In countless speeches, local reports, and books, educators and officials emphasized mental discipline,...
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