American Journal of Education and College Review, Volume 8Office of American Journal of Education, 1860 - Education Vol. 17-24 include the circulars, reports and documents issued by the editor as commissioner of education (vol. 18 is the American year-book and register for 1869; v. 19, Special report on education in the District of Columbia). |
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... taught from as early an age as possible . Children should not be obliged to do actual labor , nor to be instructed , before the fifth year , for fear of stunting them . The loud crying of children - unless it is caused by sickness - is ...
... taught from as early an age as possible . Children should not be obliged to do actual labor , nor to be instructed , before the fifth year , for fear of stunting them . The loud crying of children - unless it is caused by sickness - is ...
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... therefore , needs to be taught ; and , without wholly dis- carding the text - book , the subject should exist mainly in the teacher's mind , that , having drawn , as it were 6 LETTERS TO A YOUNG TEACHER By Gideon F Thayer, Geography.
... therefore , needs to be taught ; and , without wholly dis- carding the text - book , the subject should exist mainly in the teacher's mind , that , having drawn , as it were 6 LETTERS TO A YOUNG TEACHER By Gideon F Thayer, Geography.
Page 82
... taught the definitions of the names of the simplest objects , - land and water , - - the pupils , at the same time , sketching them , one by one , on their slates or paper , the teacher having first given their forms and names on the ...
... taught the definitions of the names of the simplest objects , - land and water , - - the pupils , at the same time , sketching them , one by one , on their slates or paper , the teacher having first given their forms and names on the ...
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... taught one of our district schools for three consecutive winters . It was esteemed the most backward of all our schools , partly perhaps from locality , partly perhaps from other causes whose mention would not be per- tinent to the ...
... taught one of our district schools for three consecutive winters . It was esteemed the most backward of all our schools , partly perhaps from locality , partly perhaps from other causes whose mention would not be per- tinent to the ...
Page 103
... taught the question arises , How are we to set about instructing ; what is to be our method ? In this respect , also , is there the greatest variety of opinions among instructors . In the first place , there is an opposition similar to ...
... taught the question arises , How are we to set about instructing ; what is to be our method ? In this respect , also , is there the greatest variety of opinions among instructors . In the first place , there is an opposition similar to ...
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Page 285 - A stranger yet to pain ! I feel the gales that from ye blow A momentary bliss bestow, As waving fresh their gladsome wing, My weary soul they seem to sooth, And, redolent of joy and youth, To breathe a second spring.
Page 378 - O Lord, how manifold are thy works ! in wisdom hast thou made them all: the earth is full of thy riches. So is this great and wide sea, wherein are things creeping innumerable, both small and great beasts.
Page 465 - But was it such ? It was. Where thou art gone Adieus and farewells are a sound unknown...
Page 378 - He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth...
Page 285 - Say, Father Thames, for thou hast seen Full many a sprightly race Disporting on thy margent green The paths of pleasure trace, Who foremost now delight to cleave With pliant arm thy glassy wave?
Page 10 - Marvel not at this : for the hour is coming, in which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice, and shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life ; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation.
Page 9 - When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained; What is man, that thou art mindful of him; and the son of man, that thou visitest him? For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honor. Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet...
Page 373 - And they brought young children to him, that he should touch them : and his disciples rebuked those that brought them. But when Jesus saw it, he was much displeased, and said unto them, Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God.
Page 9 - And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it. And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
Page 378 - And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind : and God saw that it was good.