English High Schools for Girls: Their Aims, Organisation, and ManagementLongmans, Green, 1907 - 243 pages |
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English High Schools for Girls: Their Aims, Organisation, and Management Sara Annie Burstall Affichage du livre entier - 1907 |
English High Schools for Girls: Their Aims, Organisation, and Management Sara Annie Burstall Affichage du livre entier - 1907 |
English High Schools for Girls: Their Aims, Organisation, and Management Sara Annie Burstall Affichage du livre entier - 1907 |
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afternoon Arithmetic Assistant Mistresses authorities begin Board of Education boarding schools boys building Chapter character compulsory cost course curriculum day school Day Schools Trust develop difficulties discipline domestic arts Dorothea Beale duties elementary schools Emily Davies endowments England English especially examinations fees fifteen form mistress form teacher Frances Mary Buss French Geography German girl's Girton College give given Grammar gymnastics Harpur Trust Head Mistresses higher ideal important individual influence intellectual interest Latin lessons London Manchester Grammar School Manchester High School mathematics matriculation matter ment method middle school Miss moral ordinary organisation parents physical practical principle public school pupils question recognised relation rule scholarships school discipline schools for girls secondary education secondary schools sixteen social specialisation taught teaching technical things tion to-day tradition University whole
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Page 216 - I call therefore a complete and generous education, that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war.
Page 33 - The purpose of the public elementary school is to form and strengthen the character and to develop the intelligence of the children entrusted to it...
Page 216 - To prepare us for complete living is the function which education has to discharge...
Page 94 - Sir, this is a novel idea. At the time when these measures were before Congress in 1850, when the questions involved in them were discussed from day to day, from week to week, and from month to month...
Page 33 - ... reasoning, so that they may gain an intelligent acquaintance with some of the facts and laws of nature; to arouse in them a living interest in the ideals and achievements of mankind, and to bring them to some familiarity with the literature and history of their own country; to give them some power over language as an instrument of thought and expression, and, while making them conscious of the limitations of their knowledge, to develop in them such a taste for good reading and thoughtful study...
Page 216 - The great work of a governor is to fashion the carriage, and form the mind ; to settle in his pupil good habits, and the principles of virtue and wisdom ; to give him, by little and little, a view of mankind; and work him 1 Deportment, bearing. into a love and imitation of what is excellent and praiseworthy ; and in the prosecution of it, to give him vigour, activity, and industry.
Page 216 - Franklin's phrase, with its twenty-five Saxon and four Latin words : ". . William Coleman, then a merchant's clerk about my age, who had the coolest, clearest head, the best heart, and the exactest morals of any man I ever met with.
Page 158 - S shoo!, to implant in the children habits of industry, self-control, and courageous perseverance in the face of difficulties ; they can teach them to reverence what is noble, to be ready for selfsacrifice, and to strive their utmost after purity and truth...
Page 23 - THIS is the Chapel : here, my son, Your father thought the thoughts of youth, And heard the words that one by one The touch of Life has turned to truth.
Page 150 - — Men of little showing — For their work continueth. And their work continueth, Broad and deep continueth, Greater than their knowing...