Annual Report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction of the State of WisconsinThe Department., 1858 |
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... results to which it guides the well - trained mind , a much shorter method might be pursued with one who needed to be impressed with its importance . I would take such an one to a place of instruction , to a school , to a child's school ...
... results to which it guides the well - trained mind , a much shorter method might be pursued with one who needed to be impressed with its importance . I would take such an one to a place of instruction , to a school , to a child's school ...
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... result . The School Fund proper , after deducting the amount set apart for Normal School purposes , amounted , on the 1st of October last , to $ 2,845,846 34 considerably less than the year prece- ding , owing to the diversion from the ...
... result . The School Fund proper , after deducting the amount set apart for Normal School purposes , amounted , on the 1st of October last , to $ 2,845,846 34 considerably less than the year prece- ding , owing to the diversion from the ...
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... result where it justly belongs - with the representatives of the people . While other States are anxiously seeking how they may augment their School Funds , which experience is proving to be quite too inadequate for the vast mission ...
... result where it justly belongs - with the representatives of the people . While other States are anxiously seeking how they may augment their School Funds , which experience is proving to be quite too inadequate for the vast mission ...
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... results must be a deliberateness and independence of judgment , and a thoroughness and extent of information , unknown in former times . The diffusion of these silent teachers , books , through the whole community , is to work greater ...
... results must be a deliberateness and independence of judgment , and a thoroughness and extent of information , unknown in former times . The diffusion of these silent teachers , books , through the whole community , is to work greater ...
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... result . What , then , are the kinds of books needed ? " In the history of the early life of any one , " remarks Presi- dent BARKER , of Alleghany College , " the imagination is far more vigorous and lively than the rational faculty ...
... result . What , then , are the kinds of books needed ? " In the history of the early life of any one , " remarks Presi- dent BARKER , of Alleghany College , " the imagination is far more vigorous and lively than the rational faculty ...
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Page 191 - If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
Page 234 - No people can be bound to acknowledge and adore the invisible hand which conducts the affairs of men, more than the people of the United States. Every step by which they have advanced to the character of an independent nation seems to have been distinguished by some token of providential agency.
Page 26 - 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 many would go along with me. — In every accident which may happen through life, in pain, in sorrow, in depression, and distress — I will call to mind this accusation, and be comforted.
Page 232 - 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?
Page 31 - I were to pray for a taste which should stand me in stead under every variety of circumstances, and be a source of happiness and cheerfulness to me through life, and a shield against its ills, however things might go amiss and the world frown upon me, it would be a taste for reading.
Page 27 - It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds, and these invaluable means of communication are in the reach of all. In the best books great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours.
Page 228 - Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure — reason and experience both forbid us to expect, that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
Page 27 - No matter how poor I am ; no matter though the prosperous of my own time will not enter my obscure dwelling, if the sacred writers will enter and take up their abode under my roof, if Milton will cross my threshold to sing to me of Paradise, and...
Page 57 - 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.
Page 57 - By general instruction, we seek, as far as possible, to purify the whole moral atmosphere ; to keep good sentiments uppermost, and to turn the strong current of feeling and opinion, as well as the censures of the law, and the denunciations of religion, against immorality and crime. We hope for a security, beyond the law, and above the law, in the prevalence of enlightened and well-principled moral sentiment.