Report of the Commissioner of Education Made to the Secretary of the Interior for the Year ... with Accompanying Papers, Volume 1

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1893 - Education
 

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Page 205 - Under no circumstances, however, is the religious instruction in any such school to include the teaching of any religious catechism or religious formulary which is distinctive of any particular denomination.
Page 158 - ... period, and dividing the sum by the number of times the school has met within the same period ; the quotient is the average number in attendance.
Page 19 - Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas.
Page 503 - Science will hereafter be held in the week beginning on the last Sunday but one in May, and continue from Monday to Saturday, occupying from 9 to 12 in the morning, and from 1 to 4 in the afternoon of each day. Thus the whole number of papers to be set is twelve. The subjects of examination are Moral and Political Philosophy, Mental Philosophy, Logic and Political Economy. Lists of authors and books are published, which are intended to mark the general course which the examination is to take...
Page 218 - Rapport fait au nom de la Commission du budget chargée d'examiner le projet de loi portant fixation du budget général de l'exercice 1901 (par M.
Page 309 - These foreign Governments which we think so offensively arbitrary, do at least take, when they administer education, the best educational opinion of the country into their counsels, and we do not.
Page 78 - If the chancel have a minister, the belfry hath a master : and where youth is, as it is eachwhere, there must be trainers, or there will be worse. He that will not allow of this careful provision for such a seminary of masters, is most unworthy either to have had a good master himself, or hereafter to have a good one for his. Why should not teachers be well provided for, to continue their whole life in the school, as Divines, Lawyers, Physicians do in their several professions?
Page 188 - That in case of those Parishes which consist of Districts detached from each other by the Sea or Arms of the Sea, or otherwise, as where a Parish consists of Two or more Islands, of which there are several Instances in the Highlands, North Isles and Hebrides, or where it is otherwise of great Extent or Population, so that one Parochial School cannot be of any effectual Benefit to the whole Inhabitants...
Page 551 - To the rich the very poor are a sentimental interest : to the poor they are a crushing load. The poverty of the poor is mainly the result of the competition of the very poor.
Page 553 - The first essential that must be borne in mind as governing every Scheme that may be put forward is that it must change the man when it is his character and conduct which constitute the reasons for his failure in the battle of life.

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