Report of the British and Foreign School Society, 94–96. köide

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Page 5 - To make the society happy and people easy under the meanest circumstances, it is requisite that great numbers of them should be ignorant as well as poor.
Page 35 - Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, and Needlework shall be taught ; the lessons for reading shall consist of extracts from the Holy Scriptures ; no catechism or peculiar religious tenets shall be taught in the schools, but every child shall be enjoined to attend regularly the place of worship to which its parents belong.
Page 29 - The vice-patrons, president, vice-presidents, treasurer, and secretaries, shall be considered as members of the General Committee, and the treasurer and secretaries members of all Committees. XII. A special general meeting, at which no less than thirty shall constitute a quorum, shall be called at any time, at the requisition of the Committee, or any twenty-four subscribers, on addressing a letter to the secretaries, specifying the object of the meeting, at which no other business shall be brought...
Page 25 - System for the Education of the Labouring and Manufacturing Classes of Society of every religious persuasion," but now known simply as the " British and Foreign School Society.
Page 27 - It shall support and train up young persons of both sexes for supplying properly- instructed teachers to the inhabitants of such places in the British dominions, at home and abroad, as shall be desirous of establishing schools on the British system. It shall instruct all persons, whether natives or foreigners, who may ' be sent from time to time for the purpose of being qualified as teachers in this or any other country. * Report of the Finance Committee and Trustees for 1812, at quoted in the "...
Page 27 - That no alteration be made in these Laws, except at the Annual General Meeting or at a Special General Meeting called for that purpose, of which at least one week's notice shall be...
Page 12 - ... for reading shall consist of extracts from the Holy Scriptures ; no catechism or peculiar religious tenets shall be taught in the schools, but every child shall be enjoined to attend regularly the place of worship to which its parents belong. *»* The grand object of the institution being to promote education in general, any application for the training of a teacher, at the expense of the person thus applying, will be attended to, although such intended school is not to be conducted on the extended...
Page 27 - All schools which shall be supplied with Teachers at the expense of this Institution shall be open to the children of parents of all religious denominations. Reading, "Writing, Arithmetic, and Needlework shall be taught ; the lessons for reading shall consist of extracts from the Holy Scriptures; no catechism or peculiar religious tenets shall be taught in the schools...
Page 25 - It shall instruct all persons, whether natives or foreigners, who may be sent from time to time, for the purpose of being qualified as Teachers in this or any other country. %* The School...
Page 23 - The Institution for promoting the Education of the Labouring and Manufacturing Classes of Society, of every religious persuasion...

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