The American Journal of Education, Volume 3Henry Barnard F.R. Brownell., 1857 - Education |
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... Mettray . At Mettray they are exclusively young criminals , acquitted on the score of ignorance , at Ruysselede less than half belong to this class ; the rest are poor children sent by the parishes , or by benevolent societies or ...
... Mettray . At Mettray they are exclusively young criminals , acquitted on the score of ignorance , at Ruysselede less than half belong to this class ; the rest are poor children sent by the parishes , or by benevolent societies or ...
Page 643
... Mettray , simplified and reduced to a scale of expenditure more compatible with Belgian notions . Thus , as at Mettray , there are no prison walls ; there are such walls and means of ordinary security , as would be found in ordinary ...
... Mettray , simplified and reduced to a scale of expenditure more compatible with Belgian notions . Thus , as at Mettray , there are no prison walls ; there are such walls and means of ordinary security , as would be found in ordinary ...
Page 644
... Mettray I found that the processes of buying and selling are held in very little honor , there being a general notion that communities of such magnitude ought to supply their own wants without losing time in going to market : thus as ...
... Mettray I found that the processes of buying and selling are held in very little honor , there being a general notion that communities of such magnitude ought to supply their own wants without losing time in going to market : thus as ...
Page 645
... Mettray , I could not refrain from intimating a doubt as to its practical utility , but I find that I was quite mistaken . In France the experiment was tried at the suggestion of the Minister of the Marine himself , and the youths so ...
... Mettray , I could not refrain from intimating a doubt as to its practical utility , but I find that I was quite mistaken . In France the experiment was tried at the suggestion of the Minister of the Marine himself , and the youths so ...
Page 646
... Mettray , the system is based upon the undeniable fact that the maintenance and education of the young men are a great deal more than a full remuneration for all the labor that they can perform ; they therefore pay no wages even for the ...
... Mettray , the system is based upon the undeniable fact that the maintenance and education of the young men are a great deal more than a full remuneration for all the labor that they can perform ; they therefore pay no wages even for the ...
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Page 158 - Beside yon straggling fence that skirts the way, With blossom'd furze unprofitably gay, There, in his noisy mansion, skill'd to rule, The village master taught his little school ; A man severe he was, and stern to view, I knew him well, and every truant knew...
Page 158 - A man severe he was, and stern to view, I knew him well, and every truant knew : Well had the boding tremblers learned to trace The day's disasters in his morning face ; Full well they laughed with counterfeited glee At all his jokes, for many a joke had he ; Full well the busy whisper circling round, Conveyed the dismal tidings when he frowned.
Page 59 - Anon out of the earth a fabric huge Rose, like an exhalation, with the sound Of dulcet symphonies and voices sweet, Built like a temple, where pilasters round Were set, and Doric pillars overlaid With golden architrave ; nor did there want Cornice or frieze with bossy sculptures graven ; The roof was fretted gold.
Page 32 - I must do it, as it were, in such weight, measure, and number, even so perfectly as God made the world, or else I am so sharply taunted, so cruelly threatened, yea, presently, sometimes with pinches, nips, and bobs, and other ways, which I will not name for the honour I bear them, so without measure misordered, that I think myself in hell, till time come that I must go to Mr.
Page 158 - For e'en though vanquish'd, he could argue still ; While words of learned length, and thundering sound. Amazed the gazing rustics ranged around ; And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew That one small head could carry all he knew.
Page 179 - Sweetness into my heart, unfelt before, And into all things from her air inspired The spirit of love and amorous delight.
Page 100 - O for the coming of that glorious time When, prizing knowledge as her noblest wealth And best protection, this imperial Realm, While she exacts allegiance, shall admit An obligation, on her part, to teach Them who are born to serve her and obey ; Binding herself by statute to secure For all the children whom her soil maintains The rudiments of letters, and inform The mind with moral and religious truth...
Page 450 - Twas her own country bred the flock so fair ; 'Twas her own labor did the fleece prepare ; And, sooth to say, her pupils, ranged around. Through pious awe did term it passing rare ; For they in gaping wonderment abound, And think, no doubt, she been the greatest wight on ground...
Page 210 - But oh ! what solemn scenes on Snowdon's height Descending slow their glittering skirts unroll? Visions of glory, spare my aching sight ! Ye unborn ages, crowd not on my soul I No more our long-lost Arthur we bewail, All hail, ye genuine kings, Britannia's issue, hail I HI.
Page 100 - Yet mutinously knits his angry brow, And lifts his wilful hand on mischief bent, Or turns the godlike faculty of speech To impious use — by process indirect Declares his due, while he makes known his need.