The Rural School from WithinJ.B. Lippincott, 1917 - 303 pages |
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... exist . To a limited degree , there is no greater oppor- tunity for development than that which knocks the first day upon the country schoolhouse door where the teacher 19 ONWARD CHRISTIAN SOLDIERS III IN Loco PARENTIS II.
... exist . To a limited degree , there is no greater oppor- tunity for development than that which knocks the first day upon the country schoolhouse door where the teacher 19 ONWARD CHRISTIAN SOLDIERS III IN Loco PARENTIS II.
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... greater the next day , and con- tinued to increase until the enrollment was complete , about the middle of December . I am not at all cer- tain that the text - book condition was a really bad one . It did give variety . Some of the ...
... greater the next day , and con- tinued to increase until the enrollment was complete , about the middle of December . I am not at all cer- tain that the text - book condition was a really bad one . It did give variety . Some of the ...
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... greater part of the year , to be treated in such a way as to make it so insanitary ? Why this condition ? Was it the fault of my predecessors ? Had they suffered these conditions to exist ? If so , why ? Had they borne it all patiently ...
... greater part of the year , to be treated in such a way as to make it so insanitary ? Why this condition ? Was it the fault of my predecessors ? Had they suffered these conditions to exist ? If so , why ? Had they borne it all patiently ...
Page 45
... greater number of probable characters than all other English writers combined . He has a character for every man and one must be an expert to avoid seeing himself in the great looking - glasses of literature made and patented by Charles ...
... greater number of probable characters than all other English writers combined . He has a character for every man and one must be an expert to avoid seeing himself in the great looking - glasses of literature made and patented by Charles ...
Page 94
... greater in cities than in rural communities . The city affords less publicity to delinquency than does the open country . The city makes possible greater indepen- dence of one's associates , and in consequence thereof the city gets the ...
... greater in cities than in rural communities . The city affords less publicity to delinquency than does the open country . The city makes possible greater indepen- dence of one's associates , and in consequence thereof the city gets the ...
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Page 110 - What are little girls made of? Sugar and spice, and everything nice, That's what little girls are made of.
Page 250 - ... bad school organization ; while other sections, less fortunately situated in other ways, have been able to make exceptional progress in school reorganization because favored by modern laws on this subject. Three distinct units of organization are in use at the present time in the United States — the district, the township, and the county. In addition, there are several instances of mixed systems in which the management rests both on the district and on the township, or county. Experience has,...
Page 111 - O woman, lovely woman ! nature made you To temper man ; we had been brutes without you. Angels are painted fair, to look like you ; There's in you all that we believe of heaven ; Amazing brightness, purity and truth, Eternal joy and everlasting love.
Page 114 - ... perseverance may probably obtain every advantage and honour his college can bestow. I forget whether the simile has been used before, but I would compare the man, whose youth has been thus passed in the tranquillity of dispassionate prudence, to liquors which never ferment, and consequently continue always muddy.
Page 114 - A lad, whose passions are not strong enough in youth to mislead him from that path of science which his tutors, and not his inclinations, have ! chalked out, by four or five years perseverance may probably obtain every | advantage and honour his college can bestow.
Page 130 - he who by the plow would thrive, must either hold the plow or drive," is superccded by the precept, " he who by the plow would thrive, must toil in thought as well as drive.
Page 83 - It's good enough for me! It was good enough for father, It was good enough for father, It was good enough for father, And it's good enough for me!
Page 250 - In addition, there are several instances of mixed systems, in which the responsibility for management is divided between the district and the township, the district and the county, or the township and the county. There is also some variety in the details of the township systems and much variety in those of the county systems. The district system...
Page 243 - Experience in teaching, covering several years in graded-school work, in an academy, and in a normal school, leads to the conviction that no subject requires more sound knowledge of the principles of pedagogy than does the subject of agriculture.
Page 279 - It is to this new-fashioned laxity of rule that we may in part attribute, I think, much of the insubordination and riot, yes, even 'Lynch law,' which has crept into our schools and families, as well as pervaded like a pestilence over our states.