Annual Report on the Condition and Improvement of the Common Schools and Educational Interests of the State of WisconsinDepartment of Public Instruction, 1858 - Education |
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... Schools . - The first School Report of this State , nine years ago , gave a trifle less than four months as the average length of time the schools in the State were taught . This aver- age has steadily increased , until this year's ...
... Schools . - The first School Report of this State , nine years ago , gave a trifle less than four months as the average length of time the schools in the State were taught . This aver- age has steadily increased , until this year's ...
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... schools altogether . But an extension to four months , I believe , would not be oppressive , but would prove a powerful impetus to the great cause of education in our State . Number of Districts . - The number of separate districts in ...
... schools altogether . But an extension to four months , I believe , would not be oppressive , but would prove a powerful impetus to the great cause of education in our State . Number of Districts . - The number of separate districts in ...
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... year , 2,470 ; this year , 3,099 - showing only about 700 school house sites enclosed , or one in about every five and a ... schools themselves , and the value of the instruction im- parted . The following table exhibits the gratifying ...
... year , 2,470 ; this year , 3,099 - showing only about 700 school house sites enclosed , or one in about every five and a ... schools themselves , and the value of the instruction im- parted . The following table exhibits the gratifying ...
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... education . It vitally concerns us all , and yet few seem to realize the ever ... schools since the organ- ization of the State to over a million and a half ... months of the Legis- lature , scarcely as many days are devoted to the ...
... education . It vitally concerns us all , and yet few seem to realize the ever ... schools since the organ- ization of the State to over a million and a half ... months of the Legis- lature , scarcely as many days are devoted to the ...
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... school in Boston , the sys- tem has expanded , until it now embraces our whole wide - spread Republic . Four millions of the youth of this country are con- nected with the various educational ... month , it was re - committed to a committee ...
... school in Boston , the sys- tem has expanded , until it now embraces our whole wide - spread Republic . Four millions of the youth of this country are con- nected with the various educational ... month , it was re - committed to a committee ...
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acre Amount Library fines Amount of money amount of Wages annually attended School Average amount braries Caledonia Children over 20 cited City Common Schools Counties and Towns Creek Dell Prairie Diamond Bluff ding in Town District Libraries dollars Eau Claire Erin Prairie Farmington Fayette Female Teacher Fond du Lac Green Lake Grove HENRY BARNARD Highest valuation Houses in Joint Hustisford Jefferson Joint Libraries Juneau Kewaunee Legislature Lowest valuation maining unexpended Male Children residing Male Teachers Marcellon mind money raised money received Month paid months Schools moral Names of Counties Normal Schools Packwaukee paid to Male Prairie Public Instruction raised by tax residing in Town Sch'l School Districts School Fund School House Sites School Libraries Sheboygan Sheboygan Falls Shullsburg TABLE taught tax and expended teach tion Total valuation Township Libraries V.-continued valuation of School Volumes loaned Wages per month Watertown City Whitestown Wisconsin y'rs of age
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Page 197 - If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
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Page 238 - In this situation of this assembly, groping as it were in the dark to find political truth, and scarce able to distinguish it when presented to us, how has it happened, sir, that we have not hitherto once thought of humbly applying to the Father of lights to illuminate our understandings?
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Page 240 - ... it would be peculiarly improper to omit, in this first official act, my fervent supplications to that Almighty Being who rules over the universe, who presides in the councils of nations, and whose providential aids can supply every human defect, that his benediction may consecrate to the liberties and happiness of the people of the United States a government instituted by themselves for these essential purposes, and may enable every instrument employed in its administration to execute with success...
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Page 38 - I have, in a single instance, sacrificed the slightest of your interests to my ambition, or to my fortune. It is not alleged, that to gratify any anger, or revenge of my own, or of my party, I have had a share in wronging or oppressing any description of men, or any one man in any description. No ! The charges against me, are all of one kind, that I have pushed the principles of general justice and benevolence too far; further than a cautious policy would warrant; and further than the opinions of...
Page 27 - RELIGION, MORALITY and KNOWLEDGE, being necessary to good government, and the happiness of mankind, SCHOOLS, AND THE MEANS OF EDUCATION, SHALL BE FOREVER ENCOURAGED.