History of Education

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Scribner, 1919 - 461 pages

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Page 376 - for a 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 281 - A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world; he that has these two has little more to wish for, and he that wants either of them will be but little the better for anything else.
Page 265 - I call that a complete and generous education which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously all the offices, both public and private, of peace and war.
Page 377 - to the end that the church of Virginia may be furnished with a seminary of ministers of the gospel, and that the youth may be piously educated in good letters and manners, and that the Christian faith may be propagated among the Western Indians to the glory of Almighty God.
Page 265 - The end 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.
Page 283 - great principle and foundation of all virtue and worth is placed in this: That a man is able to deny himself his own desires, cross his own inclinations, and purely follow what reason directs as best, though the appetite lean the other way.
Page 382 - tempore, and make and speak true Latin in verse and prose . . . and decline perfectly the paradigms of nouns and verbs in the Greek tongue, let him then, and not before, be capable of admission into the
Page 380 - true religion and virtue, and qualifying them to serve their country and themselves by breeding them in reading, writing, and learning of languages and useful arts and sciences, suitable to their sex, age, and degree—which cannot be effected in any manner so well as by erecting 'public schools
Page 386 - so immediately from the sense of the community, as in ours, it is proportionally essential." In his inaugural address John Adams said: "The wisdom and generosity of the legislature in making liberal appropriations in money for the benefit of
Page 400 - methods of arranging the studies and conducting the education of the young, to the end that all children in this commonwealth who depend upon the common schools for instruction may have the best education which these schools can be made to impart.

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