Biennial Report of the State Superintendent of Public Instruction to the Governor of the State of Nebraska, Volume 111891 - Education |
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Page 51 - ... is made to advance in knowledge. A definite course of study helps the pupils to do more work in a given time, as it divides their work into successive steps, and thus shows them how much they must accomplish, and how fast they are progressing. (6) It decides for each incoming teacher, by the complete records which are kept, what branches each pupil is prepared to take up at the opening of the term; and it guides the teacher in arranging the programme of the recitations and the hours of study...
Page 52 - The board shall have power to classify and grade the scholars in such district, and cause them to be taught in such schools and departments as they may deem expedient; to establish in such district a high school, when ordered by a vote of the district at...
Page 34 - Provision shall be made by general law for an equitable distribution of the income of the fund set apart for the support of the common schools, among the several school districts of the state, and no...
Page 37 - Nebraska institute for the deaf and dumb, the name, age, and postoffice address of every deaf and dumb person between the ages of five and twenty-one years, who resides within his county, including all such persons as may be deaf to such an extent as to be unable to acquire an education in the common schools.
Page 75 - Oh, Sir ! the good die first, And they whose hearts are dry as summer dust Burn to the socket.
Page 37 - The legislature may provide by law for the establishment of a school or schools for the safe keeping, education, employment and reformation of all children under the age of sixteen years, who, for want of proper parental care, or other cause, are growing up in mendicancy, or crime.
Page 38 - SEC. 9. [Care of property.] --The said board shall have the care and custody of the school house and other property of the district, except so far as the same shall be confided to the custody of the director.
Page 117 - Which was the greatest innovator, which was the more important personage in man's history, he who first led armies over the Alps, and gained the victories of Cannae and Thrasymene; or the nameless boor who first hammered out for himself an iron spade?
Page 34 - No sectarian instruction shall be allowed in any school or institution supported in whole or in part by the public funds set apart for educational purposes, nor shall the state accept any grant, conveyance, or bequest of money, lands or other property to be used for sectarian purposes.
Page 35 - ... that have been, or may hereafter be granted to this state, where, by the terms and conditions of such grant, the same are not to be otherwise appropriated.