Annual Report on the Condition and Improvement of the Common Schools and Educational Interests of the State of WisconsinDepartment of Public Instruction, 1860 - Education |
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... Institute or Normal School , No. who design to make teaching a profession , .... No. of Scholars registered , ... Per centage of Scholars under 6 years of age ,. 66 66 66 16 Per centage of punctual attendance ,. No. of first class ...
... Institute or Normal School , No. who design to make teaching a profession , .... No. of Scholars registered , ... Per centage of Scholars under 6 years of age ,. 66 66 66 16 Per centage of punctual attendance ,. No. of first class ...
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... institutes . The number of scholars registered would show a registry . of about 130,000 outside of the cities , a calculation as accurate as can be made on account of incompleteness of returns . Those actually in the schools are but 59 ...
... institutes . The number of scholars registered would show a registry . of about 130,000 outside of the cities , a calculation as accurate as can be made on account of incompleteness of returns . Those actually in the schools are but 59 ...
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... Institutes , under direction of the Board of Normal Regents , we have been able to spend a little time , beside that given to public ad- dresses , in talking to teachers . During the spring series of Institutes , free conferences were ...
... Institutes , under direction of the Board of Normal Regents , we have been able to spend a little time , beside that given to public ad- dresses , in talking to teachers . During the spring series of Institutes , free conferences were ...
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... Institutes and Associations , by teachers , for self - improvement . 2 . " Largely increased interest by Directors ( School Boards ) in the duties of their office . 3. " Improvement in school houses and furniture . 4. " Great increase ...
... Institutes and Associations , by teachers , for self - improvement . 2 . " Largely increased interest by Directors ( School Boards ) in the duties of their office . 3. " Improvement in school houses and furniture . 4. " Great increase ...
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... INSTITUTES . 4. The nature and work of these Institutes have been ad- mirably sketched by Dr. Barnard : " They afford to the young and inexperienced teachers , an opportunity to review the studies they are to teach , and to witness ...
... INSTITUTES . 4. The nature and work of these Institutes have been ad- mirably sketched by Dr. Barnard : " They afford to the young and inexperienced teachers , an opportunity to review the studies they are to teach , and to witness ...
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age have attended Amount Library Fines Amount of Money amount of Wages Amount raised attended School Average amount braries Caledonia cent Chambers Island Children over 20 City Clark Cornell Counties and Towns County Superintendent Diamond Bluff Dist Districts not reported Eau Claire Fayette Female Children Fond du Lac Grove Highest valuation III.-continued lands Lowest valuation M'Guffey M'Guffey Ray Male Teachers Manitowoc Manitowoc Rapids Marcellon McNally ment Mineral Point Mitchell Money raised Money received Monteith month paid Names of Counties Number of Children Number of Female Number of Male number of months Number of School Number Private Packwaukee paid to Male Patch Grove Pinneo Prairie pupils attending raised by tax Ray Mitchell residing in Town Sanders School Districts School House Sites section lands Sheboygan Sheboygan Falls siding in Town TABLE taught tax and expended Thom'sn Total valuation Town Superintendents valuation of School Volumes loaned Wages per month Waterloo Village Watertown City
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Page 71 - 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 61 - ... the interest of which, and all other revenues derived from the school lands, shall be exclusively applied to the following objects, to-wit: 1. To the support and maintenance of common schools, in each school district, and the purchase of suitable libraries and apparatus therefor.
Page 18 - State, and shall enter upon the duties of his office on the first day of December next after his election.
Page 19 - ... take and subscribe the oath of office prescribed by the constitution of this state...
Page 13 - ... paid as an equivalent for exemption from military duty, and the clear proceeds of all fines collected in the several counties for any breach of the penal laws...
Page 63 - Franklin, and he will think differently and act differently all the days of his remaining life. Let boys or girls of sixteen years of age read an intelligible and popular treatise on astronomy and geology, and from that day, new heavens will bend over their heads, and a new earth will spread out beneath their feet. A mind accustomed to go rejoicing over the splendid regions of the material universe, or to luxuriate in the richer worlds of thought, can never afterwards read like a wooden machine,...
Page 59 - What quenchless fires of passion have been kindled within the bosoms of the young of both sexes by these exposures ; fires that have raged to the consuming of personal happiness, to the prevention of scholastic improvement, and to .the destruction of personal character ? Again, what disgust has been created in both sexes by not having the appropriate retirements which nature imperiously demands?
Page 71 - 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.
Page 20 - Columbia, Dane, Dodge, Fond du Lac, Grant, Green, Green Lake, Iowa, Jefferson, Kenosha...
Page 65 - Library feature of this system, as far as heard from, has been exceedingly happy, disappointing the predictions of its enemies, and the fears of its timid friends, and even transcending the most sanguine expectations of its more ardent advocates. The interest awakened by its use, and the estimation in which it is held by adults as well as youth, confirm the wisdom that gave it a township character rather than a district mission.