Report of the Board of Education ...1870 |
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Page 78 - Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men, Wisdom in minds attentive to their own. Knowledge, a rude unprofitable mass, The mere materials with which wisdom builds, Till smoothed and squared and fitted to its place, Does but encumber whom it seems to enrich.
Page 77 - Words are like leaves; and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found.
Page 245 - ... unless such child shall have attended some public or private day school where instruction is given by a teacher qualified to instruct in orthography, reading, writing, English grammar, geography, and arithmetic, at least three months of the twelve months next preceding any and every year in which such child shall be so employed.
Page 35 - I regard my work-people just as I regard my machinery. So long as they can do my work for what I choose to pay them, I keep them, getting out of them all I can.
Page 48 - Canon Norris, an inspector of schools, found evidence at the Exposition that " in all that tends to convert the mere workman into the artisan, Austria, France and Prussia were clearly passing us." Mr. Edward Huth, familiar as a juror and otherwise with the Expositions of 1851 and 1862, as well as with that of 1867, says of Great Britain : " We no longer hold that preeminence which was accorded to us in the Exhibition of 1851." He fears especially for the woolen manufacturers of his country. Mr. James...
Page 55 - At the present time no wide provision is made for instruction in drawing in the public schools. Our manufacturers therefore compete under disadvantages with the manufacturers of Europe; for in all the manufacturing countries of Europe free provision is made for instructing workmen of all classes in drawing.
Page 12 - We hereby agree that, from and after the beginning of the next term of our public school (or schools) we will employ no children under fourteen years of age, except those who are provided with a certificate from the local school-officers of actual attendance at school the full term required by law.
Page 49 - I found both masters and foremen of other countries much more scientifically educated than our own. . . The workmen of other countries have a far superior education to ours, many of whom have none whatever.
Page 112 - In its practical workings it has always been essentially secular, while its moral influence has been great and good. The Bible is generally read without objection in our schools. Much as I value its influence and desire its continued use, I oppose coercion, and advocate full religious freedom and equality. Wherever there is opposition to this time-honored usage, I would permit the largest liberty of dissent, and cheerfully allow parents to decide whether children shall read or jptWead.
Page 53 - Here is a demonstration of the bearing of popular education on national industry. It proves that education is economy and that ignorance means waste ; that the skilled workman so forecasts and plans his work that every blow tells, while he economizes both his strength and...