Northern Division: General Report for the Year1897 |
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Aberdeen Aberlour accommodation addition advanced departments average attendance Banff Banffshire boys Broughty Ferry Burgh bursaries Caithness Calder centres class subjects class-rooms Code composition considerable cookery course curriculum difficulty district drawing drill Dundee Education in Scotland elementary schools Elgin English examination exemption exercises favour Forfar Forfarshire French Geography girls give GRAFTON STREET Grammar grant half-time Higher Grade History honour improvement increase instruction intelligent interest Inverness JOHN MENZIES junior Kincardineshire Kirkwall Latin Leaving Certificate Lerwick lessons Lobban Macleod MAJESTY'S CHIEF INSPECTORS Mathematics matter ment mental arithmetic Merit Certificate methods Muir Munro Fraser nature knowledge NORTHERN DIVISION number of schools Orkney parish percentage Peterhead practical present Price Public School pupils reading regard Robertson rule satisfactory schemes scholars School Board secondary session Shetland South Uist specific subjects stage Standard STREET Sub-Inspector supply taken taught teachers teaching Thurso tion town Wattie WYMAN AND SONS
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Էջ 17 - There is no harm, but on the contrary there is benefit, in presenting a child with ideas somewhat beyond his easy and immediate comprehension. The difficulties thus offered, if not too great or too frequent, stimulate curiosity and encourage exertion.
Էջ 28 - We mean, to educate them for useful practical business purposes. Educate them for the Store and the Counting House — to do every-day practical business. Consult the children's propensities, and direct their education according to their inclinations. It may be, that there is too great a desire on the part of parents, to give their children a professional education, before the body of the people, are ready for it. A people must be a business people, and have more to depend upon than mere help in...
Էջ 16 - Dividing the numerator and denominator of a fraction by the same number does not alter the value of the fraction.
Էջ 23 - Now this is a state of things which ought not to exist; and it cannot be maintained without serious prejudice to our best interests.
Էջ 3 - DIRECTRESS OF NEEDLEWORK. My LORDS, I HAVE the honour to submit my annual report on needlework. The discontinuance of an individual examination of students in the art of teaching needlework has greatly altered the character of my visits to the training colleges, and I can only speak in general terms of the skill and ability of the students as teachers. The arrangements at the various...
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Էջ 17 - Their diagnosis from ovarian tumours is the most important and, at the same time, the most difficult.
Էջ 22 - Scots who has anything like an individuality about him — who is ' more than a name ' and a pair of dates with a list of battles between.