Schools with a Perfect Score: Democracy's Hope and SafeguardMacmillan, 1918 - 194 էջ |
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Schools with a Perfect Score: Democracy's Hope and Safeguard George William Gerwig Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1918 |
Schools with a Perfect Score Democracy's Hope and Safeguard George William Gerwig Դիտել հնարավոր չէ - 2019 |
Schools with a Perfect Score Democracy's Hope and Safeguard George William Gerwig Դիտել հնարավոր չէ - 2019 |
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Էջ 147 - LET me but do my work from day to day, In field or forest, at the desk or loom, In roaring market-place, or tranquil room ; Let me but find it in my heart to say, When vagrant wishes beckon me astray — " This is my work ; my blessing, not my doom ; Of all who live, I am the one by whom This work can best be done, in the right way.
Էջ 182 - I recognize however the right of labor to organize. Each man in America is a freeman, and so long as he does not interfere with the rights of others he has the right to do with that which is his what he pleases.
Էջ 121 - The old general rule was that educated people did not perform manual labor. , They managed to eat their bread, leaving the toil of producing it to the uneducated. This was not an insupportable evil to the working bees, so long as the class of drones remained very small. But now, especially in these free States, nearly all are educated — quite too nearly all to leave the labor of the uneducated in any wise adequate to the support of the whole.
Էջ 98 - Wherefore I perceive that there is nothing better, than that a man should rejoice in his own works; for that is his portion: for who shall bring him to see what shall be after him?
Էջ 146 - This is the gospel of labor ! ring it, ye bells of the kirk : The Lord of Love came down from above, to live with the men who work. This is the rose that He planted, here in the thorn-cursed soil — Heaven is blest with perfect rest, but the blessing of Earth is toil.
Էջ 121 - States, nearly all are educated — quite too nearly all to leave the labor of the uneducated in any wise adequate to the support of the whole. It follows from this that henceforth educated people must labor. Otherwise, education itself would become a positive and intolerable evil. No country can sustain in idleness more than a small percentage of its numbers. The great majority must labor at something productive. From these premises the problem springs, "How can labor and education be the most satisfactorily...
Էջ 1 - ... healthy body, an alert, sure mind, a fine, steadfast spirit. Those things in art or craft which develop to the full the latent ability of each one to serve his fellows with dexterous hand, a lofty mind, and a glad heart, rich in response to the beautiful and noble in life. Teachers who love children with a parent's love and books with a scholar's fondness ; who find beauty and joy in service ; are large of vision, learners always. » A training which leads from learning and doing on to wisdom,...
Էջ 145 - Work thou for pleasure : paint or sing or carve The thing thou lovest, though the body starve. Who works for glory misses oft the goal ; Who works for money coins his very soul. Work for the work's sake, then, and it may be That these things shall be added unto thee.
Էջ 119 - I have broken my hands on your granite, I have broken my strength on your steel, I have sweated through years for your pleasure, I have worked like a slave for your weal. And what is the wage you have paid me? You masters and drivers of men — Enough so I come in my hunger To beg for more labor again.
Էջ 1 - A training which leads from learning and doing on to wisdom, to high ideals, to service as a sacred trust, to worthy citizenship, to character. And, having given these things to the children, the schools of the people should also give to all citizens an exalted, neighborly life more abundant, making the big red schoolhouse a radiating centre for the final good of all Americans, and then for the world.