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الصفحة 35 - And let us not be weary in well-doing ; for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.
الصفحة 29 - Hence we see in the course of study for mere children, subjects which can only be comprehended by the mind at the period of manhood. The result is unhappy. The pupil leaves school, as it is said, thoroughly educated, but utterly disgusted with the studies which he has pursued, and resolved hereafter never to look at them again ; a resolution to which he frequently adheres with marvellous pertinacity. But this evil is confined to DO grade of schools.
الصفحة 33 - T would any other branch of physical knowledge, would look upon the earth as a grand specimen in physical science, presented for our examination. The knowledge of artificial divisions, of national boundaries, number of inhabitants, revenues, exports and imports, will readily associate itself with the knowledge of natural divisions, and will be remembered more easily by means of a vivid objective representation. It is because the study of geography consists so much of these dry details, that it in...
الصفحة 12 - ... atmosphere, find interest and enjoyment where they formerly experienced nothing but nervous prostration, weariness, and intense discomfort. This change, it is proper to remark, is to be ascribed more to the labors of Henry Barnard, late Superintendent of . Common Schools in Connecticut, than to any other cause. This gentleman has devoted his remarkable abilities, for many years, to the improvement of Common School Education...
الصفحة 12 - Not long since, they were a reproach to our community, and a striking illustration of the forgetfulness of even parental affection. Children whose homes were in every respect comfortable, were huddled together in small school-rooms, horribly cold in winter, and almost suffocating in summer, provided with seats and desks apparently constructed for the purpose of creating intense weariness, and inflicting no contemtible amount of pain.