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Author: Elisha Mitchell Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9781333773229 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 20
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Excerpt from A Lecture on the Subject of Common Schools: Delivered Before the North Carolina Institute of Education, at Chapel Hill, June 26, 1834 Where the consequences of neglect in the discharge of parental duties soon manic fest themselves, it is not, in most cases, expedient for the State to interfere 'in behalf of the'child. If the poor man intermit those labours bv which his family is support ed, hunger soon looks in at his door, and his heart is rentby the voices of his children clamouring for bread. He will be impelled to his task, however ungrateful, by a feeling more intense than a dread of the penalty which the laws of his country assign to a neglect of his duty. That the public authorities should enforce the-cultivation of the earth, or a diligent application to the. Mechanic arts, is therefore unnecessary, and in this country at least; impracticable. It is said that the Dutch, when a man will not labour, put him into a cistern, furnished with a pump set the water to run ning upon him, and then leave him his election, between pumping himself clear and strangling. But if this method were introduced amongst us, it is to be apprehended that one half the community would be kept busy throughout the year in making cisterns and pumps for the other. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Elisha Mitchell Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9781333773229 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 20
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Excerpt from A Lecture on the Subject of Common Schools: Delivered Before the North Carolina Institute of Education, at Chapel Hill, June 26, 1834 Where the consequences of neglect in the discharge of parental duties soon manic fest themselves, it is not, in most cases, expedient for the State to interfere 'in behalf of the'child. If the poor man intermit those labours bv which his family is support ed, hunger soon looks in at his door, and his heart is rentby the voices of his children clamouring for bread. He will be impelled to his task, however ungrateful, by a feeling more intense than a dread of the penalty which the laws of his country assign to a neglect of his duty. That the public authorities should enforce the-cultivation of the earth, or a diligent application to the. Mechanic arts, is therefore unnecessary, and in this country at least; impracticable. It is said that the Dutch, when a man will not labour, put him into a cistern, furnished with a pump set the water to run ning upon him, and then leave him his election, between pumping himself clear and strangling. But if this method were introduced amongst us, it is to be apprehended that one half the community would be kept busy throughout the year in making cisterns and pumps for the other. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Elisha 1793-1857 Mitchell Publisher: Legare Street Press ISBN: 9781015172142 Category : Languages : en Pages : 26
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Author: William Hooper Publisher: ISBN: 9781330955017 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 34
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Excerpt from A Lecture on the Imperfections of Our Primary Schools, and the Best Method of Correcting Them: Delivered Before the North Carolina Institute of Education at Chapel Hill, June 20th, 1832 About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Samuel Atkins Eliot Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9780332862620 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 22
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Excerpt from A Complete System of Education: A Lecture Delivered Before the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, January 19, 1853 Laws for the promotion of education will undoubtedly, if wisely made, be of great, of incalculable benefit to the whole community, through their direct action, and of still greater advantage through that which is indirect; and I now propose to suggest what it seems to me, would be a true and com plete system of education for the benefit, and by the means and resources of the Commonwealth, and to urge some argu ments to show the importance of the object, and the duty which devolves on the government of the Commonwealth to carry into execution such scheme of general education as shall appear to it most comprehensive and useful. The present educational plans of Massachusetts embrace nothing more than the Common school for children, and the Normal school for the teachers. Nothing is taught, under the auspices of the Commonwealth, but the absolute neces sities of intellectual life; those elements which may ena ble the child of a poor man, if endowed with an ardent genius, to educate himself imperfectly in after life, or the son of a rich man to move on more rapidly, under the guidance of such instructors as may be procured for him by a liberal expenditure. The acquisition of knowledge, the discipline of the mind which is the best result of the best education, is not a task so soon or so easily finished. The road is steep, difficult, abounding with obstacles, interminable. And shall the State, the common mother, content herself with standing at its very entrance, just holding the gate open, and saying En ter, my children, this is the road to eminence - climb up these first hills, and you will have a splendid view of moun tains upon mountains beyond, which you may ascend if you like, and which you must climb if you mean to reach a really lofty position? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Henry Kiddle Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9780428801298 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 46
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Excerpt from Common-School Teaching: A Lecture Delivered Before the Teachers Association of the City of Brooklyn, September 28, 1877 The teacher personally has felt the benefit of this change. His character and social position have been elevated. No longer made the butt of ridicule and the object of caricature, he is regarded by enlightened persons as the member of an honorable and useful profession - a profession requiring at once special training and peculiar talent. The horn-book and the ferala have ceased to be considered his only necessary implements, both mental and physical; nor is the bankrupt tradesman, or the penniless and spendthrift gentle man, deemed fit to descend to his lowly and degrading occu patiou. He is supposed to possess at least some information and skill to which. Those who are not teachers, can bave'no necessary claim. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: William A. Graham Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9780332519876 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 20
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Excerpt from Address Delivered Before the Two Literary Societies of the University of North Carolina, June 6, 1849 The design of all education being to prepare the young for the duties and employments of life, the system has no doubt varied with the phases and progress of society in different ages. When the strongest arm, the most dextrous spear, lance or scimetar, or even the successful combinations of embattled hosts, were the tests of human excellence, and hercules or achilles, sampson or richard camp. DE lion, were the impersonations of all that com manded the admiration of men, there was but little need of a refi ned taste, a critical knowledge of Languages, of Mathematics, or of Physical or Moral Science. Even in times and countries where learning was esteemed and cultivated, the zeal and energies of its votaries were too often wasted in futile speculations and vagaries, and the aspiring youth, fired with a noble ardor for intellectual distinction, was doomed to wear out his life in the intricacies of a vain philosophy, or afalse theology, which has been dissipated, as the mists of the morning, before the light of the Christian and re formed religion, or in the labyrinths of metaphysical disputation, serving no other end than to whet the mental appetite, without fur hishing it any appropriate food. And since the establishment of Universities, which were unknown to the Ancients, and have arisen consequently to the revival of letters, after the dark ages of history, much that once engaged their attention, and procured for their sophisters high Academic honors, has been found unequal to the scrutiny of common sense, and of that new philosophy of which Lord bacon was the founder, and has been exploded as obsolete pedantry. Having our lot cast in a period favored beyond all others, because blessed with the light of their experience, and the re searches and inventions of our own, our scheme of instruction Is, of course, designed to fit us to act well our parts, in the maturity of knowledge, and the higher civilization which it is our privilege to enjoy. With Governments of vast and complicated affairs, appealing to justice, - truth and reason, instead efforce, in every step of their administration; with systems of Law, attempting-to define every individual right, and the appropriate remedy for its infraction - a Medical Art, which puts in requisition a knowledge of the 'minutest functions of our-bodily organs, and calls on all the kingdoms of nature for its remedies; - a Theology, which, though simple and easily intelligible in its essential features, runs back in its details and history, through all the learned languages of the world, to the very origin of our race -with a Literature, preserving for our use the wisdom and learning of past ages when Commerce brings us into acquaintance and friendly com petition with all the nations of the earth, and every Art is bocom ing illustrated, adorned and dignified by the discoveries of Sci ence; a system of Education, corresponding in its provisions with this stage in the progress of mankind, is obviously necessary. And modern nations, sensible of this necessity, instead of leaving such provision to be made by the voluntary and unaided efforts of the friends of learning, as was the case even in the most pol ished ages of Greece and Rome, have established Universities in their fundamental systems of Government. N ot to supersede inferior Schools, but as a part of the same system to supply the wants of the noble aspirants, whose thirst for knowledge has not been quenched at these humbler fountains of learning. N ot that it is expected that every youth can participate in their teachings, however desirable it may be among a free people that all should, but because the State will be remunerated for their endowment, if those who do, shall become worthy representatives of their age and country, in useful and elegant erudition and good morals.
Author: Elisha Mitchell
Author: Elisha Mitchell
Author: Elisha 1793-1857 Mitchell
Author: Elisha Mitchell
Author: William Hooper
Author: William Hooper
Author: Samuel Atkins Eliot
Author: Samuel Atkins Eliot
Author: Henry Kiddle
Author: William A. Graham
Author: William Chauncey Fowler