Prize Essay and Lectures, Delivered Before the American Institute of Instruction ... Including the Journal of Proceedings, Volumen42American Institute of Instruction, 1872 List of members included in each volume, beginning with 1891. |
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Página 185 - Yes, I know it well ; for I see the steeple of that place where God first opened my mouth in public to his glory ; and I am fully persuaded, how weak soever I now appear, that I shall not depart this life, till that my tongue shall glorify his godly name in the same place.
Página 102 - Nothing has more contributed in this country to disparage the cause of classical education than the rendering it the education of all. That to many this education can be of little or no advantage, is a truth too manifest to be denied ; and on this admission the sophism is natural, to convert "useless to many
Página 156 - ... to the end that learning may not be buried in the graves of our forefathers in church and commonwealth, the Lord assisting our endeavors.
Página 101 - Neither is it to be forgotten that this dedication of colleges and societies to the use only of professory learning has not only been inimical to the growth of the sciences, but has also been prejudicial to states and governments. For hence it proceeds that princes when they have to choose men for business of state find a wonderful dearth of able men around them; because there is no collegiate education designed for these purposes, where men naturally so disposed and affected might (besides other...
Página 80 - But truths on which depends our main concern, That 'tis our shame and misery not to learn, Shine by the side of every path we tread With such a lustre, he that runs may read.
Página 79 - O, brother schoolmaster, remember evermore the exceeding dignity of our calling. It is not the holiest of. all callings; but it runs near and parallel to the holiest. The lawyer's wits are sharpened, and his moral sense not seldom blunted, by a life-long familiarity with ignorance, chicanery and crime. The physician, in the exercise of a more beneficent craft, is saddened continually by the spectacle of human weakness and human pain.
Página 163 - Before the Revolution, and for some years after, no slates were used in common schools ; all writing and the operations in arithmetic were on paper. The teacher wrote the copies and gave the sums in arithmetic ; few or none of the pupils having any books as a guide.
Página 57 - May none ot these, through any cause, slight their great duties. There were no schools systematically graded; there were no blackboards; there were no globes, nor other ordinary school apparatus in schools I attended. I never saw a fullsized map, nor illustrative picture of any sort suspended against the school walls. There were no Warren Colburn's nor Walton's Arithmetics and Algebras; and the method of teaching the science of numbers was utterly unscientific. I shall never forget the ineffable...
Página 56 - I had the privilege of forty minutes' worth of teaching, and three hundred and twenty minutes' worth of sitting still, (if I could), which I could not,— playing, whispering, and general waste of time, though occasionally a picture book relieved the dreary monotony. My nervous temperament, dislike of confinement at busy nothingness, want of affection for books,— slates then we had none, — love of mischief, and general habit of fidgetiness, often entitled me to Madam Tileston's customary punishment...
Página 97 - Revolution ; what sort of instruction at Cambridge filled Samuel and John Adams with their notions of civil liberty ; what sort of culture at New Haven brought Jonathan Edwards to his lofty rank among the theologians of this country and of Scotland ; what discipline at Princeton fitted James Madison to exert such an influence upon the formation of the Constitution ; and what academic drill at Columbia College, in New York, made Alexander Hamilton the founder of our national credit and our financial...