Business AdministrationDe Bower-Chapline Company, 1909 - Commerce |
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Page 69
... learning , in art , and in statecraft , but has finally succumbed to the enervating influences of a highly civilized life . Those peoples which to - day are proudest of the past and have the greatest faith in their destiny are ...
... learning , in art , and in statecraft , but has finally succumbed to the enervating influences of a highly civilized life . Those peoples which to - day are proudest of the past and have the greatest faith in their destiny are ...
Page 84
... learning , when supplied by the state , is so far a matter of pri- vate concern to those who receive it that the courts ought to declare the state incompetent to supply it wholly at the public expense . " In answer to this contention ...
... learning , when supplied by the state , is so far a matter of pri- vate concern to those who receive it that the courts ought to declare the state incompetent to supply it wholly at the public expense . " In answer to this contention ...
Page 94
... learning not to use with children a motive that will not work when the children are grown up . To be sure , we must admit that this doctrine condemns almost all the school discipline of the past , and much of the family dis- cipline ...
... learning not to use with children a motive that will not work when the children are grown up . To be sure , we must admit that this doctrine condemns almost all the school discipline of the past , and much of the family dis- cipline ...
Page 96
... learning may not be buried in the graves of our forefathers . " This national be- lief in the absolute necessity of education for the well being of the commonwealth is reiterated again and again . " I appre- hend , " said Daniel Webster ...
... learning may not be buried in the graves of our forefathers . " This national be- lief in the absolute necessity of education for the well being of the commonwealth is reiterated again and again . " I appre- hend , " said Daniel Webster ...
Page 115
... learning more , but exclusiveness . " The public high school as at present organized is en- deavoring to meet the needs of two classes of students : first , those who are proceeding from this school to the university college , and who ...
... learning more , but exclusiveness . " The public high school as at present organized is en- deavoring to meet the needs of two classes of students : first , those who are proceeding from this school to the university college , and who ...
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Page 311 - Is true Freedom but to break Fetters for our own dear sake, And, with leathern hearts, forget That we owe mankind a debt? No! true freedom is to share All the chains our brothers wear, And, with heart and hand, to be Earnest to make others free!
Page 127 - Here's to pure mathematics, and may it never be of any use to anybody ! " But the ambitious young man or woman in Boston who is earning a living, and who is willing to struggle for the increased power and pleasure which come from technical knowledge of one's own calling, has not exhausted his opportunities in the night schools maintained by the city and by private thoughtfulness. There has grown up...
Page 71 - We do not, indeed, expect all men to be philosophers, or statesmen ; but we confidently trust, and our expectation of the duration of our system of government rests on that trust, that by the diffusion of general knowledge, and good and virtuous sentiments, the political fabric may be secure, as well against open violence and overthrow, as against the slow but sure undermining of licentiousness.
Page 12 - State from depriving any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law, and from denying to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws ; but it adds nothing to the rights of one citizen as against another.
Page 305 - While you labour for any thing below your proper humanity, you seek a happy life in the region of death. Well saith the moral poet:— Unless above himself he can .Erect himself, how mean a thing is man !
Page 304 - What constitutes a State? Not high-raised battlement or labored mound, Thick wall or moated gate; Not cities proud, with spires and turrets crowned; Not bays and broad-armed ports, Where, laughing at the storm, rich navies ride; Not starred and spangled courts, Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No: MEN, high-minded MEN...
Page 304 - Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No: — men, high-minded men, With powers as far above dull brutes endued In forest, brake, or den, As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude — Men who their duties kuow, But know their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain, Prevent the long-aimed blow, And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain; These constitute a state ; And sovereign law, that state's collected will, O'er thrones and globes elate, Site empress, crowning good, repressing...
Page 119 - What, then, is education, and how are we to educate ? For men are not agreed as to what the young should learn either with a view to perfect training or to the best life." Furthermore, into most human lives there is thrust the problem of earning a living. So fierce is human struggle at this age that the earning of a livelihood, if the living is to be a comfortable one, requires the possession on the part of the individual of expertness in some one direction.
Page 69 - We supposed it had always been understood in this state that education, not merely in the rudiments, but in an enlarged sense, was regarded as an important practical advantage to be supplied at their option to rich and poor alike, and not as something pertaining merely to culture and accomplishment to be brought as such within the reach of those whose accumulated wealth enabled them to pay for it.
Page 69 - We content ourselves with the statement that neither in our state policy, in our constitution, nor in our laws, do we find the primary school districts restricted in the branches of knowledge which their officers may cause to be taught, or the grade of instruction that may be given, if their voters consent in regular form to bear the expense and raise the taxes for the purpose.