American Journal of Education and College Review, Volume 32Office of American Journal of Education, 1882 - Education Vol. 17-24 include the circulars, reports and documents issued by the editor as commissioner of education (vol. 18 is the American year-book and register for 1869; v. 19, Special report on education in the District of Columbia). |
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... means of giving preliminary stimulus . When the pupil has begun a new subject , he must not , at first , be left to himself . It is not with book - tasks as it is with nature - tasks . Books do not supply ( as Nature often does ) the means ...
... means of giving preliminary stimulus . When the pupil has begun a new subject , he must not , at first , be left to himself . It is not with book - tasks as it is with nature - tasks . Books do not supply ( as Nature often does ) the means ...
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... mean- ing may be altered by the omission of stops and capital letters . Abun- dant examples may easily be constructed ... means of the fingers , then with an abacus , chess - board , marbles , tin soldiers , counters , or other devices ...
... mean- ing may be altered by the omission of stops and capital letters . Abun- dant examples may easily be constructed ... means of the fingers , then with an abacus , chess - board , marbles , tin soldiers , counters , or other devices ...
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... means , and receiving the answer , 70 units or 7 tens , you thereby show him that the new rule tells us that ten sevens are the same as seven tens ; and this he may verify at once for himself by his marbles . In the same lesson you may ...
... means , and receiving the answer , 70 units or 7 tens , you thereby show him that the new rule tells us that ten sevens are the same as seven tens ; and this he may verify at once for himself by his marbles . In the same lesson you may ...
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... means of attaining it . We are to work for the future , not for the present . The race is to be a long one ; and we are to set our minds not on getting over the first hundred yards as rapidly as possible , but on reaching a goal that ...
... means of attaining it . We are to work for the future , not for the present . The race is to be a long one ; and we are to set our minds not on getting over the first hundred yards as rapidly as possible , but on reaching a goal that ...
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... means of a compass , show how to determine the North and South ; and point out that the sun is always South about twelve o'clock , Southeast about nine A. M. , Southwest about three P. M. , etc. Encourage the child to make for himself a ...
... means of a compass , show how to determine the North and South ; and point out that the sun is always South about twelve o'clock , Southeast about nine A. M. , Southwest about three P. M. , etc. Encourage the child to make for himself a ...
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Page 285 - State which may take and claim the benefit of this act to the endowment, support, and maintenance of at least one college where the leading object shall be, without excluding other scientific and classical studies, and including military tactics, to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts...
Page 285 - That there be granted to the several States, for the purposes hereinafter mentioned, an amount of public land, to be apportioned to each State a quantity equal to thirty thousand acres for each Senator and Representative in Congress...
Page 285 - Provided, That in no case shall any State to which land scrip may thus be Issued be allowed to locate the same within the limits of any other State or of any Territory of the United States, but their assignees may thus locate said land scrip upon any of the unappropriated lands of the United States subject to sale at private entry...
Page 822 - It shall be the duty of the General Assembly, as soon as circumstances will permit, to provide by law for a general system of education, ascending in a regular gradation from township schools to a State University, wherein tuition shall be gratis, and equally open to all.
Page 511 - List his discourse of war, and you shall hear A fearful battle render'd you in music: Turn him to any cause of policy, The Gordian knot of it he will unloose, Familiar as his garter...
Page 516 - Still o'er these scenes my memory wakes, And fondly broods with miser care ; Time but the impression stronger makes, As streams their channels deeper wear.
Page 285 - State to which land scrip may thus be issued be allowed to locate the same within the limits of any other State or of any Territory of the United States, but their assignees may thus locate said land scrip upon any of the unappropriated lands of the United States subject to sale at private entry at one dollar and twenty-five cents, or less, per acre...
Page 778 - Promote, then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened.
Page 285 - ... the interest of which shall be inviolably appropriated, by each state which mav take and claim the benefit of this act, to the endowment, support, and maintenance of at least one college...
Page 526 - But as young men, when they knit and shape perfectly, do seldom grow to a further stature ; so knowledge, while it is in aphorisms and observations, it is in growth : but when it once is comprehended in exact methods, it may perchance be further polished and illustrated and accommodated for use and practice ; but it increaseth no more in bulk and substance.