School Interests and Duties: Developed from Page's "Mutual Duties of Parents and Teachers", from Various Public Reports and Documents, and from Bulletins of the National Bureau of Education |
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... grade to the specialists in the high school , and to the professors of the university . Teachers of all grades have felt the need of this training , and the standard of efficiency grows higher every year . But now that the demand of ...
... grade to the specialists in the high school , and to the professors of the university . Teachers of all grades have felt the need of this training , and the standard of efficiency grows higher every year . But now that the demand of ...
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... grades of the primary and grammar school departments , and sometimes also for the high school grades . These are of- fered always at low rates , and the result is that thousands of children are reading good , clean , and wholesome ...
... grades of the primary and grammar school departments , and sometimes also for the high school grades . These are of- fered always at low rates , and the result is that thousands of children are reading good , clean , and wholesome ...
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... grades are to be recited in concert , etc. " It is easy to see the mischief which must result from such official dictation in the details of teaching , and it is obvious that such dictation is even more mischievous , and perhaps more ...
... grades are to be recited in concert , etc. " It is easy to see the mischief which must result from such official dictation in the details of teaching , and it is obvious that such dictation is even more mischievous , and perhaps more ...
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... grading makes it necessary to raise the grass from the beginning , all the loam accessible should be spread upon the surface . Two feet in depth of rich loam is not too much ; 1 The greater part of this chapter is taken from one of the ...
... grading makes it necessary to raise the grass from the beginning , all the loam accessible should be spread upon the surface . Two feet in depth of rich loam is not too much ; 1 The greater part of this chapter is taken from one of the ...
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... grades , is the lighting of the several rooms . We know that the sun rises in the east , is at its highest point in the south , and sets in the west ; we know also positively the good and bad effects of different kinds and degrees of ...
... grades , is the lighting of the several rooms . We know that the sun rises in the east , is at its highest point in the south , and sets in the west ; we know also positively the good and bad effects of different kinds and degrees of ...
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Page 234 - When Freedom, from her mountain height, Unfurled her standard to the air, She tore the azure robe of night, And set the stars of glory there! She mingled with its gorgeous dyes The milky baldric of the skies, And striped its pure, celestial white With streakings of the morning light; Then, from his mansion in the sun, She called her eagle-bearer down, And gave into his mighty hand The symbol of her chosen land!
Page 138 - THE groves were God's first temples. Ere man learned To hew the shaft, and lay the architrave, And spread the roof above them — ere he framed The lofty vault, to gather and roll back The sound of anthems ; in the darkling wood, Amid the cool and silence, he knelt down, And offered to the Mightiest solemn thanks And supplication.
Page 224 - I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it." I am loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
Page 222 - They meant to set up a standard maxim for free society, which should be familiar to all, and revered by all; constantly looked to, constantly labored for, and even though never perfectly attained, constantly approximated, and thereby constantly spreading and deepening its influence, and augmenting the happiness and value of life to all people of all colors everywhere.
Page 132 - For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease. Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground; yet through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant.
Page 224 - In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it.
Page 211 - This is the forest primeval ; but where are the hearts that beneath it Leaped like the roe, when he hears in the woodland the voice of the huntsman?
Page 136 - A lily of a day Is fairer far, in May, Although it fall and die that night; It was the plant and flower of light. In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures life may perfect be.
Page 223 - I have often inquired of myself what great principle or idea it was that kept this Confederacy so long together. It was not the mere matter of the separation of the colonies from the motherland, but that sentiment in the Declaration of Independence which gave liberty not alone to the people of this country, but hope to all the world, for all future time.
Page 225 - ... the executive government of the united states including the military and naval authorities thereof will recognize and maintain the freedom of said persons...