Documents, Including Messages and Other Communications, Del 2

Forsideomslag
1861

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Side 151 - To prepare us for complete living is the function which education has to discharge ; and the only rational mode of judging of any educational course is, to judge in what degree it discharges such function.
Side 402 - Institutions for the .benefit of the insane, blind, and deaf and dumb, shall always be fostered and supported by the state ; and be subject to such regulations as may be prescribed by the General Assembly.
Side 33 - That the six miles reservation including the salt springs, commonly called the Scioto salt springs, the salt springs near the Muskingum river, and in the military tract, with the sections of land which include the same...
Side 153 - And then, pervading the whole, is the vicious system of rote learning — a system of sacrificing the spirit to the letter. See the results. What with perceptions unnaturally dulled by early thwarting, and a coerced attention to books — what with the mental confusion produced by teaching subjects before they can be understood, and in each of them giving generalizations before the facts of which these are the generalizations — what with making the pupil a mere passive recipient of other's ideas,...
Side 172 - Daggett of the same place, of the second part. Witnessed), that the said party of the first part, for and in consideration of the...
Side 153 - ... comparatively attractive to a child, is in great part passed over. Nearly every subject dealt with is arranged in abnormal order: definitions, and rules, and principles being put first, instead of being disclosed, as they are in the order of nature, through the study of cases. And then, pervading the whole, is the vicious system of rote learning — a system of sacrificing the spirit to the letter.
Side 153 - ... the words contained in books can be rightly interpreted into ideas, only in proportion to the antecedent experience of things. Observe next, that this formal instruction, far too soon commenced, is carried on with but little reference to the laws of mental development. Intellectual progress is of necessity from the concrete to the abstract. But regardless of this, highly abstract subjects, such as grammar, which should come quite late, are begun quite early. Political geography, dead and uniteresting...
Side 200 - NOT. 15, 1860, made in pursuance of the act " To provide for the publication of an accurate and detailed statement of the receipts and expenditures of the public revenue,
Side 109 - ... it be lawful for any county treasurer to pay over any portion of the school fund to any local treasurer, board of education, or other school officers of any city, township or village organized as to schools either under a general or special law, except on the order of the auditor of the proper county; and no such order shall be drawn by the county auditor, unless...
Side 33 - ... the same to be used under such terms, and conditions, and regulations, as the legislature of the said state shall direct: Provided, The legislature shall never sell nor lease the same for a longer period than ten years, at any one time.

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