Official Report: Including a Record of the National ConventionAmerican Association of School Administrators, National Education Association of the United States. Department of Superintendence American Association of School Administrators., 1909 |
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Page 108 - Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, As the swift seasons roll ! Leave thy low-vaulted past! Let each new temple, nobler than the last, Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast, Till thou at length art free, Leaving thine outgrown shell by life's unresting sea!
Page 86 - ... do not like you, Dr. Fell. "The reason why, I cannot tell "But this I know, and know full well, "I do not like you, Dr. Fell...
Page 84 - The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, Because he anointed me to preach good tidings to the poor : He hath sent me to proclaim release to the captives, And recovering of sight to the blind, To set at liberty them that are bruised, 19 To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.
Page 174 - ... delight of an audience, so can the great teacher in this way, by applying the personal touch in teaching, make out of that individual pupil the instrument on which he shall play and by which he shall move the entire class. But then, there is a second thing in regard to the personal touch in teaching. After all has been done that can be done in the way of class instruction, I am sure we have not done our whole duty, because the varieties of mind are so many and diversities of circumstance, of...
Page 16 - Quite contrary to this view is that from the standpoint of the child. There is more truth than fiction in Charles Dudley Warner's magnificent little book, Being a Boy. He says, "Boys, in general, would be very good farmers if the current notions about farming were not so very different from those they entertain. What passes for laziness is very often an unwillingness to farm in a particular way.
Page 116 - ... according to the instructions furnished, and shall notify in writing the parent or guardian of every pupil who shall be found to have any defect of vision or...
Page 126 - ... here all subjects are studied and taught and all occupations and industries are represented and made to flourish in a common atmosphere of higher education. But as yet we have no system of secondary education that can be called universal and until the matter is settled, and settled right at this point, our system is weak at its most important level, because it is our secondary education that touches our people during their formative period and that really reaches the masses in such a way as to...
Page 107 - ... This is fact, not fancy. At seven years of age the Athenian lad entered the palaestra, which was essentially a playground. All the first and better half of the day was spent in gymnastics, dancing, games and play. In the afternoon there was singing, some writing (the beginners wrote in the sand box or in sand strewn upon the ground), some reading, all in the open air, and then came a long period of play again. Such was the schooling of the Greek lad up to the age of ten or eleven and it did not...
Page 116 - ... all such examinations to the Superintendent of Education as he may require. Section 2. The State Auditor is hereby directed to draw his order on the State Treasurer for such sums and at such times as the Superintendent of Education, with the approval of the State Board of Health, may require to carry out the provisions of this act. The total expense under this act shall not exceed Six Hundred ($600) Dollars in any biennial term ending June 30. Section 3. This act shall take effect July 1, 1905.
Page 106 - Where the sun does not go, the doctor does," is an Italian proverb quoted by Koetelmann. Try as we may, we can not get the sun sufficiently into all our schoolrooms, and if we could we would shut it out again as soon as we let the children in to study, because we say it hurts their eyes. Where then shall the children bathe in the sunshine as they should, but on the playground ? We do well to debar contagious diseases from the schools, but let...