National Education"Argus" Office, 1853 - 365 pages |
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... desire to dedicate the following pages to you , ders it easy to explain , in few words , my reasons for enun- ciating opinions on so important a subject as education . When the Board of which you are Chairman did me the honor to appoint ...
... desire to dedicate the following pages to you , ders it easy to explain , in few words , my reasons for enun- ciating opinions on so important a subject as education . When the Board of which you are Chairman did me the honor to appoint ...
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... desire was gratified rather by an exquisitely illuminated missal , than by the moral culture . of thousands of plebeian minds : -transcription was the chief occupation of the scholars in the trivial schools , and writing was considered ...
... desire was gratified rather by an exquisitely illuminated missal , than by the moral culture . of thousands of plebeian minds : -transcription was the chief occupation of the scholars in the trivial schools , and writing was considered ...
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... desire to enable poor students to obtain gratuitously , or at small ex- pense , the advantages of the universities themselves . Both in Paris and Germany , these institutions were soon diverted from their original purpose , and I need ...
... desire to enable poor students to obtain gratuitously , or at small ex- pense , the advantages of the universities themselves . Both in Paris and Germany , these institutions were soon diverted from their original purpose , and I need ...
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... desires are chiefly set on the immortal well - being of man . On the basis of these general views , I have two general remarks to offer , regarding the Government scheme of education . “ 1. — I should not require a certificate of ...
... desires are chiefly set on the immortal well - being of man . On the basis of these general views , I have two general remarks to offer , regarding the Government scheme of education . “ 1. — I should not require a certificate of ...
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... desire to hold the Council up to derision , but rather to prove how righteous has been their repeatedly declared resolution , not to extend the denominational system . Though their in- tention to abolish it in 1844 was burked by Sir G ...
... desire to hold the Council up to derision , but rather to prove how righteous has been their repeatedly declared resolution , not to extend the denominational system . Though their in- tention to abolish it in 1844 was burked by Sir G ...
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afford amongst Archbishop assert attendance Bible Bishop of Exeter Bishop of Newcastle called century Charlemagne child Christian Church of England clergy colony Commissioners Committee common Council declare Denominational Schools Denominational System districts ditto Divine doctrine duty educa established fact faith four furnished give Government grant hundred ignorance inculcation Inspector Ireland knowledge labor learning Lord Lord John Russell Lordship matter means ment mind moral Moreton Bay National Board National Education National School National System object offenders opinion parents parish persons pounds Presbyterians principle Privy Council Protestant prove pupils question quote read and write received religion religious instruction remarkable respect Roman Catholic salary scholars schoolmaster Scripture sect sectarian secular Silesia Sir George Gipps society South Wales Sydney system of education taught teachers teaching things thousand tion truth Wallace Wallace's words
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Page 268 - To conclude therefore, let no man, upon a weak conceit of sobriety or an ill-applied moderation, think or maintain that a man can search too far or be too well studied in the book of God's word or in the book of God's works ; divinity or philosophy; but rather let men endeavour an endless progress or proficience in both...
Page 223 - He paused, as if revolving in his soul Some weighty matter, then, with fervent voice And an impassioned majesty, exclaimed — " 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...
Page 68 - I thank God, there are no free schools nor printing, and I hope we shall not have these hundred years; for learning has brought disobedience, and heresy, and sects into the world, and printing has divulged them, and libels against the best government. God keep us from both!
Page 62 - The end, then, of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him as we may the nearest by possessing our souls of true virtue, which being united to the heavenly grace of faith makes up the highest perfection.
Page 77 - For the purpose of public instruction, we hold every man subject to taxation, in proportion to his property, and we look not to the question, whether he, himself, have or have not children to be benefited by the education for which he pays. We regard it as a wise and liberal system of police, by which property, and life, and the peace of society are secured.
Page 194 - The wisdom of a learned man cometh by opportunity of leisure: and he that hath little business shall become wise. How can he get wisdom that holdeth the plough, and that glorieth in the goad, that driveth oxen, and is occupied in their labours, and whose talk is of bullocks?
Page 243 - More especially, we pray for the good estate of the Catholic Church; that it may be so guided and governed by Thy good Spirit, that all who profess and call themselves Christians may be led into the way of truth, and hold the faith in unity of spirit, in the bond of peace, and in righteousness of life.
Page 78 - We do not, indeed, expect all men to be philosophers or statesmen ; but we confidently trust, and our expectation of the duration of our system of government rests on that trust, that by the diffusion of general knowledge and good and virtuous sentiments, the political fabric may be secure, as well against open violence and overthrow, as against the slow but sure undermining of licentiousness.
Page 4 - That your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, in the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers to give them, as the days of heaven upon the earth.
Page 62 - But because our understanding cannot in this body found itself but on sensible things nor arrive so clearly to the knowledge of God and things invisible as by orderly conning over the visible and inferior creature, the same method is necessarily to be followed in all discreet teaching.