Annual Report on Public Schools in Rhode Island, Volumes 16-191861 |
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... matters of educational interest , there I have , without an excep- tion , met miserable schools ; so that the difference between the best and the poorest schools of our commonwealth , exhibits a chasm which is absolutely appalling . I ...
... matters of educational interest , there I have , without an excep- tion , met miserable schools ; so that the difference between the best and the poorest schools of our commonwealth , exhibits a chasm which is absolutely appalling . I ...
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... matters . These meetings need not be organized and formal . Indeed , a fuller attendance and a more lively interest would be likely to be secured , if they partook somewhat largely of the social element . There are very . many parents ...
... matters . These meetings need not be organized and formal . Indeed , a fuller attendance and a more lively interest would be likely to be secured , if they partook somewhat largely of the social element . There are very . many parents ...
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... matter what his other qualifications may be , a teacher , who is unable to originate questions and explanations of his own , is not fit to teach . Be very particular , therefore , to ascertain what the one whom you are examining ...
... matter what his other qualifications may be , a teacher , who is unable to originate questions and explanations of his own , is not fit to teach . Be very particular , therefore , to ascertain what the one whom you are examining ...
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... matter of such paramount importance , as to require the utmost caution in adjust- ing the appointing power . The fact , so abundantly attested , that an unfortunate selection of teachers is often , very often made in this Commonwealth ...
... matter of such paramount importance , as to require the utmost caution in adjust- ing the appointing power . The fact , so abundantly attested , that an unfortunate selection of teachers is often , very often made in this Commonwealth ...
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... matter in charge , of all the districts of the town , they will hardly fail to take it up systematically . " " Precisely those qualifications which fit men for the office of school committee , fit them for seeking out the best ...
... matter in charge , of all the districts of the town , they will hardly fail to take it up systematically . " " Precisely those qualifications which fit men for the office of school committee , fit them for seeking out the best ...
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Page 14 - We regard it as a wise and liberal system of police, by which property, and life, and the peace of society are secured. We seek...
Page 11 - The people of this commonwealth have the sole and exclusive right of governing themselves, as a free, sovereign, and independent state; and do, and forever hereafter shall, exercise and enjoy every power, jurisdiction, and right, which is not, or may not hereafter be, by them expressly delegated to the United States of America, in Congress assembled.
Page 14 - For the purpose of public instruction, we hold every man subject to taxation, in proportion to his property, and we look not to the question, whether he, himself, have, or have not, children to be benefited by the education for which he pays. We regard it as a wise and liberal system of police, by which property, and life, and the peace of society are secured.
Page 13 - It is ordered that the selectmen of every town, in the several precincts and quarters where they dwell, shall have a vigilant eye over their brethren and neighbors, to see first that none of them shall suffer so much barbarism in any of their families, as not to endeavor to teach, by themselves or others, their children and apprentices, so much learning, as may enable them perfectly to read the English tongue, and knowledge of the capital laws: upon penalty of twenty shillings for each neglect therein.
Page 13 - Forasmuch as the maintenance of good literature doth much tend to the advancement of the weal and flourishing state of societies and republics, this Court doth therefore order, that in whatever township in this government, consisting of fifty families or upwards, any meet man shall be obtained to teach a grammar school, such township shall allow at least twelve pounds, to be raised by rate on all the inhabitants.
Page 99 - There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty.
Page 175 - Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him (xxii.
Page 12 - Open the doors of the school-house to all the children in the land. Let no man have the excuse of poverty for not educating his own offspring. Place the means of education within his reach, and if they remain in ignorance, be it his own reproach. If one object of the expenditure of your revenue be protection against crime, you could not devise a better or cheaper means of obtaining it. Other nations spend their money in providing means for its detection and punishment, but it is the principle of...
Page 13 - Education, to accomplish the ends of good government, should be universally diffused. Open the doors of the school-house to all the children in the land. Let no man have the excuse of poverty for not educating his own offspring. Place the means of education within his reach, and if they remain in ignorance, be it his own reproach.
Page 12 - I fear that they may place too implicit a confidence in their public servants, and fail properly to scrutinize their conduct ; that in this way they may- be made the dupes of designing men, and become the instruments of their own undoing.