Circular of Information of the Bureau of Education, forU.S. Government Printing Office, 1877 |
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... popular newspaper writers ! Yet successful essayists and penny - a - liners require as a preparation for their functions a substratum of solid information . They have to exert themselves to keep abreast of an age in which great facts ...
... popular newspaper writers ! Yet successful essayists and penny - a - liners require as a preparation for their functions a substratum of solid information . They have to exert themselves to keep abreast of an age in which great facts ...
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... popular education . Indeed , education is systematically left to private enterprise and public charity ; the government contenting itself with gathering the choicest fruits and encouraging production by suitable rewards . A government ...
... popular education . Indeed , education is systematically left to private enterprise and public charity ; the government contenting itself with gathering the choicest fruits and encouraging production by suitable rewards . A government ...
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... popular opinion regards reading and writing as dangerous arts in female hands . If a woman , however , by any chance , emerges from the shaded hemisphere to which social preju- dices have consigned her , ( si qua fata aspera rumpat ...
... popular opinion regards reading and writing as dangerous arts in female hands . If a woman , however , by any chance , emerges from the shaded hemisphere to which social preju- dices have consigned her , ( si qua fata aspera rumpat ...
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... popular education is left to take care of itself in a country where letters are held sacred and their inventor enrolled among the gods ; to others it may appear equally strange that mental cultivation is so extensively diffused , con ...
... popular education is left to take care of itself in a country where letters are held sacred and their inventor enrolled among the gods ; to others it may appear equally strange that mental cultivation is so extensively diffused , con ...
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... popular favor , the diffusion of knowledge en- abling the people to become the patron of genius and learning . The Chinese practise none of these three methods . The Emperor , less arbitrary than monarchs of the west , does not feel at ...
... popular favor , the diffusion of knowledge en- abling the people to become the patron of genius and learning . The Chinese practise none of these three methods . The Emperor , less arbitrary than monarchs of the west , does not feel at ...
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Página 79 - There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty.
Página 120 - If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be. The functionaries of every government have propensities to command at will the liberty and property of their constituents. There is no safe deposit for these but with the people themselves; nor can they be safe with them without information. Where the press is free, and every man able to read, all is safe.
Página 63 - He that ruleth his spirit, is better than he that taketh a city,
Página 120 - A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy, or, perhaps, both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
Página 147 - O for the coming of that glorious time When, prizing knowledge as her noblest wealth And best protection, this imperial Realm, While she exacts allegiance, shall admit An obligation, on her part, to teach Them who are born to serve her and obey ; Binding herself by statute to secure For all the children whom her soil maintains The rudiments of letters, and inform The mind with moral and religious truth...
Página 174 - Knowledge and learning, generally diffused through a community, being essential to the preservation of a free government, and spreading the opportunities and advantages of education through the various parts of the country being highly conducive to this end...
Página 86 - Any city or town may, and every city and town having more than ten thousand inhabitants shall, annually make provision for giving free instruction in industrial or mechanical drawing to persons over fifteen years of age, either in day or evening schools, under the direction of the school committee.
Página 174 - State ; and whereas the encouragement of arts and sciences and all good literature tends to the honor of God, the advantage of the Christian religion, and the great benefit of this and the other United States of America...
Página 173 - Whereas our wise and pious ancestors, so early as the year one thousand six hundred and thirty-six, laid the foundation of Harvard College, in which university many persons of great eminence have, by the blessing of God, been initiated in those arts and sciences which qualified them for public employments, both in church and state...
Página 118 - Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness. In one in which the measures of government receive their impressions so immediately from the sense of the community as in ours, it is proportionably essential.