An Address Upon Education and Common Schools: Delivered at Cooperstown, Otsego County, Sept. 21, and Repeated by Request, at Johnstown, Fulton County, Oct. 17, 1843From the Steam Press of C. Van Benthuysen and Company, 1843 - 58 páginas |
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Página 32 - For, in the name of the living God, it must be proclaimed that licentiousness shall be the liberty; and violence and chicanery shall be the law; and superstition and craft shall be the religion; and the selfdestructive indulgence of all sensual and unhallowed passions shall be the only happiness of that people who neglect the education of their children.
Página 31 - Pour out light and truth, as God pours sunshine and rain. No longer seek knowledge as the luxury of a few, but dispense it amongst all as the bread of life.
Página 47 - ... said township, or the schools therein, and also all orders he may have redeemed since his last annual settlement with the county auditor, and take the receipt of his successor therefor, which he shall deposit with the township clerk within ten days thereafter, and for making such annual settlement he shall be entitled to receive the sum of one dollar, to be paid out of the county treasury on the order of the county auditor.
Página 37 - The first duty of government, and the surest evidence of good government, is the encouragement of education. A general diffusion of knowledge is a precursor and protector of republican institutions, and in it we must confide as the conservative power that will watch over our liberties and guard them against fraud, intrigue, corruption, and violence.
Página 46 - Such service must be made within thirty days after the making of the decision, or the performance of the act complained of : or within that time, after the knowledge of the cause of complaint came to the appellant, or some satisfactory excuse must be rendered for the delay.
Página 46 - When any proceeding of a district meeting is appealed from, and when the inhabitants of a district generally are interested in the matter of the appeal, and in all cases where an inhabitant might be an appellant had the decision or proceeding been the opposite of that which was made or had, any one or more of such inhabitants may answer the appeal, with or without the trustees.
Página 37 - In two years the elements of instruction may be acquired, and the remaining eight years must either be spent in repetition or idleness, unless the teachers of common schools are competent to instruct in the higher branches of knowledge. The outlines of geography, algebra, mineralogy, agricultural chemistry, mechanical philosophy, surveying, geometry, astronomy, political economy and ethics, might be communicated in that period of time, by able preceptors, without essential inteference with the calls...
Página 32 - God pours sunshine and rain. No longer seek knowledge as the luxury of a few, but dispense it amongst all as the bread of life. Learn only how the ignorant may learn; how the innocent may be preserved; the vicious reclaimed. Call down the astronomer from the skies; call up the geologist from his subterranean explorations; summon, if need be, the mightiest intellects from the...
Página 31 - Remember, then, the child whose voice first lisps, today, before that voice shall whisper sedition in secret or thunder treason at the head of an armed band. Remember the child whose hand, today, first lifts its tiny bauble, before that hand shall scatter firebrands, arrows, and death. Remember those sportive groups of youth in whose halcyon bosoms there sleeps an ocean, as yet scarcely ruffled by the passions which soon shall heave it as with the tempest's strength.
Página 46 - Such statement and answer must be signed by all the trustees, or other officers, whose act, omission or decision is appealed from, or a good reason on oath must be given for the omission of the signature of any of them...