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... school . We are told by men who ought to know that the vast majority of pupils never attend beyond the first four ... high school instruction is to make boys and girls dissatisfied with oppor- tunities , to despise manual labor , to ...
... school . We are told by men who ought to know that the vast majority of pupils never attend beyond the first four ... high school instruction is to make boys and girls dissatisfied with oppor- tunities , to despise manual labor , to ...
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... high - school graduates seek vocations too high for their abilities is still more fallacious and deceiving . If they sought the higher walks in life they would be found sitting in those seats , since their increased advantages would ...
... high - school graduates seek vocations too high for their abilities is still more fallacious and deceiving . If they sought the higher walks in life they would be found sitting in those seats , since their increased advantages would ...
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The school board of Independence have started out on a new lead . They invited a committee of educational men from abroad to assist the county superintendent in an examination of all appli- cants for teachers ' positions below the high ...
The school board of Independence have started out on a new lead . They invited a committee of educational men from abroad to assist the county superintendent in an examination of all appli- cants for teachers ' positions below the high ...
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... High School the coming year . Superintendent Ewart of Delaware County says in his institute circular this year : " As my official connection with the schools will close with the present year , and consequently this will be the last ...
... High School the coming year . Superintendent Ewart of Delaware County says in his institute circular this year : " As my official connection with the schools will close with the present year , and consequently this will be the last ...
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... school boards . The gentle- man in question was an applicant for a high position in the schools , and during the interview between him and the board , it was discov- ered that the gentleman was not now , nor had he been for some time ...
... school boards . The gentle- man in question was an applicant for a high position in the schools , and during the interview between him and the board , it was discov- ered that the gentleman was not now , nor had he been for some time ...
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Page 103 - Mated with a squalid savage — what to me were sun or clime! I the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time...
Page 297 - The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept. Were toiling upward in the night.
Page 104 - We get no good By being ungenerous, even to a book, And calculating profits . . so much help By so much reading. It is rather when We gloriously forget ourselves, and plunge Soul-forward, headlong, into a book's profound, Impassioned for its beauty and salt of truth — 'Tis then we get the right good from a book.
Page 101 - States and all the volunteer forces of the people should be surrendered to meet this danger by the savory influence of universal education. It is the high privilege and sacred duty of those now living to educate their successors and fit them, by intelligence and virtue, for the inheritance which awaits them.
Page 126 - Yes; constantly in reading poetry, a sense for the best, the really excellent, and of the strength and joy to be drawn from it should be present in our minds and should govern our estimate of what we read.
Page 302 - Will long detain thee; through their arched walks, Dim at noonday, discovering many a glimpse Of knights and dames such as in old romance, And lovers such as in heroic song, — Perhaps the two, for groves were their delight, That in the springtime, as alone they sate, Venturing together on a tale of love.
Page 91 - WHO loves not Knowledge ? Who shall rail Against her beauty ? May she mix With men and prosper ! Who shall fix Her pillars ? Let her work prevail. But on her forehead sits a fire : She sets her forward countenance And leaps into the future chance, Submitting all things to desire.
Page 180 - But here the main skill and groundwork will be, to temper them such lectures and explanations upon every opportunity as may lead and draw them in willing obedience, inflamed with the study of learning and the admiration of virtue, stirred up with high hopes of living to be brave men and worthy patriots, dear to God and famous to all ages...
Page 100 - Stern Lawgiver ! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's most benignant grace; Nor know we anything so fair As is the smile upon thy face: Flowers laugh before thee on their beds And fragrance in thy footing treads ; Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong; And the most ancient heavens, through Thee, are fresh and strong.
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