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Academy Amount of school Amount raised annual attendance to whole attending in summer Average length Bowdoinham Bridgton Bucksport character citizens classes common schools COUNTY Cranberry Isles Dennysville Dixfield dollars duty East Machias evil exclusive Wages exercise expense female teachers Fryeburg graded Grammar Harpswell High school important improvement institutions instruction interest labor Lewiston Limington Machiasport male teachers Masardis mean average attendance ment Milbridge mills and tenths mind moral normal schools Norridgewock Number of children number of scholars parents Parsonsfield PENOBSCOT COUNTY PLANTATIONS present proper Public lands public schools pupils qualifications raised per scholar raised to whole Rank in attendance Readfield receive returns Robbinston school agents school districts school fund school money raised school officers school room schools in weeks Searsmont SECT secure Seminary South Berwick success Supervisor teach text books tion valuation Wages of female Wages of male West Gardiner whole number winter schools
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Էջ 2 - ... that the selectmen of every town, in the several precincts and quarters where they dwell, shall have a vigilant eye over their brethren and neighbors...
Էջ 92 - ... impress on the minds of the children and youth committed to their care and instruction the principles of morality, and justice and a sacred regard for truth; love of country; humanity and a universal benevolence; sobriety, industry and frugality; chastity, moderation and temperance; and all other virtues which ornament human society...
Էջ 98 - We must educate ! we must educate ! or we must perish by our own prosperity. If we do not, short from the cradle to the grave will be our race. If, in our haste to be rich and mighty, we outrun our literary and religious institutions, they will never overtake us, or only...
Էջ 28 - I have mentioned mathematics as a way to settle in the mind a habit of reasoning closely and in train ; not that I think it necessary that all men should be deep mathematicians, but that, having got the way of reasoning, which that study necessarily brings the mind to, they might be able to transfer it to other parts of knowledge as they shall have occasion.
Էջ 92 - ... virtues to preserve and perfect a republican constitution, and secure the blessings of liberty, as well as to promote their future happiness, and also to point out to them the evil tendency of the opposite vices.
Էջ 28 - During nearly a quarter of a century's study and observation of schools, school systems and educational agencies, in different States and countries, I have tried, seen or read of nothing so universally applicable or so efficient in awakening and directing rightly both professional and parental interest in the broad field of popular education, as a well attended and wisely conducted Teachers
Էջ 79 - there is more joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, than over ninety and nine just persons that need no repentance.
Էջ 27 - ... of individual action ; — for a period of time, long enough to admit of a systematic plan of operations, and yet not so protracted as to prove a burdensome expense, or an interruption to other engagements ; — under the direction of men, whose only claim to respect and continued attention must be their experience and acknowledged success in the subjects assigned them — and in a course of instruction, at once theoretical and practical, combined with opportunities of inquiry, discussion and...
Էջ 12 - ... to impress on the minds of children and youth, committed to their care and instruction, the principles of piety, justice, and a sacred regard to truth, love to their country, humanity and universal benevolence, sobriety, industry, and frugality, chastity, moderation, and temperance, and those other virtues, which are the ornament of human society, and the basis upon which a republican constitution is founded...
Էջ 2 - ... have a vigilant eye over their brethren and neighbors, to see, first, that none of them shall suffer so much barbarism in any of their families, as not to endeavor to teach by themselves or others, their children and apprentices so much learning, as may enable them perfectly to read the English tongue, and knowledge of the capital laws, upon penalty of twenty shillings for each neglect therein...