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Acushnet avenue ANNUAL REPORT arithmetic Arnold street BEDFORD Bedford schools Benjamin Board Bonney boys Cannonville Cedar street Chairman character Clark's Point connection Cornell Cornish corporal punishment Country schools Dartmouth street demand Dews drawing Dunbar duty earnest Eleventh grade exercises fact Fifth street geography girls give Grammar schools H. F. HARRINGTON Hathaway Hayes High school Howland fund influence instruction intellectual intelligent interest Jason White Kempton street knowledge labor language large number lessons Linden street Mathews Maxfield street ment mental Merrimac street methods Middle street Mill school mind moral ninth grade oral Parker street Pitman Plainville present Primary schools principles public schools pupils Respectfully submitted Rockdale scholars School Committee school room school-house Stanton Street school Superintendent taught teachers teaching term text-book thought tion truancy Truant Officer Truant school WARD Washburn whole number William street Winslow words
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Page 101 - employed unless during the year next preceding such employment he has attended some public or private day school, under teachers approved by the school committee of the place where such school is kept, at least twenty weeks ; and no child shall be so employed who does not present a certificate made
Page 105 - child under fourteen years of age shall be employed in any manufacturing, mechanical or mercantile establishment, while the public schools in the city or town where such child lives are in session, unless such child can read and write.
Page 71 - passive bucket, and be pumped into, can in the long run be exhilarating to no creature, how eloquent soever the flood of utterance that is descending.
Page 79 - had very much to say about the evils of superficial education, both in this country and in mine. He thinks that the intellectual tuition of society is going on out of all proportion faster than its moral training, which last is essential to all education.
Page 68 - Egypshin. He lived in a bark maid of bull rushers, and he kep a golden calf, and worship braizen snakes, and he het nuthin but kwales and manner for forty year. He was kort by the air of his cd while riding under
Page 105 - every owner, superintendent or overseer in any such establishment, who employs, or permits to be employed, any child in violation of this statute, and every parent or guardian who permits such employment, it threatens a severe penalty.
Page 96 - combines so many points of instruction. It trains the sight to accuracy of observation and the touch to nicety of manipulation. It calls the perceptive faculties, those of form, place, order, color, into active play and drill. It moreover puts the inventive faculties into profitable activity It
Page 76 - in a few words : Tell a pupil those points in a subject of study which are clearly beyond the scope of his reason or observation, but from that point onward, bearing in mind always the foundation principle that he is to be taught to think, throw him upon his self-activity.
Page 71 - than the common notion of instruction, as if science were to be poured into the mind like water into a cistern''; and
Page 75 - than the common notion of instruction, as if science were to be poured into the mind like water into a cistern"; and