Moral Instruction and Training in Schools: Report of an International Inquiry ...

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Longmans, Green, 1908 - Education
 

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Page 298 - It shall be the duty of all teachers to endeavor to impress upon the minds of the pupils the principles of morality, truth, justice and patriotism ; to teach them to avoid idleness, profanity and falsehood ; to instruct them in the principles of a free government, and to train them up to a true comprehension of the rights, duties and dignity of American citizenship.
Page 286 - It is ordered, That in case where the parents or guardians of children in actual attendance on any public school or department signify in writing to the trustees their conscientious objection to any portion of such devotional exercises as may be conducted therein under the sanction of the trustees, such devotional exercises shall either be so modified as not to offend the religious feelings of those so objecting, or shall be held immediately...
Page 286 - Instruction in assuming that the said candidate will be disposed as a teacher "to inculcate by precept and example a respect for religion and the principles of Christian morality, and the highest regard for truth, justice, love of country, loyalty, humanity, benevolence, sobriety, industry, frugality, chastity, temperance, anil all other virtues.
Page 290 - ... alcoholic drinks in particular, furnish invincible reasons why people in general should do without them, and young people above all others. Teach what a stimulant is, what a narcotic is, what each may cause; effects of alcohol on the digestive, circulatory, muscular and nervous system. Teach that tobacco contains a poisonous substance called nicotine, that it frequently injures the throat, lungs, heart and other organs in adults, that it is far more harmful to young and growing persons than to...
Page 321 - Constitution and observe the laws ; should emergency arise, offer yourselves courageously to the State ; and thus guard and maintain the prosperity of Our Imperial Throne coeval with heaven and earth. So shall ye not only be Our good and faithful subjects, but render illustrious the best traditions of your forefathers.
Page 276 - ... to be confronted with the witnesses against him, and to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor.
Page 288 - It shall be the duty of each and every teacher: (1) To maintain a deportment becoming his position as an educator of the young; and to strive diligently to have exemplified in the intercourse and conduct of the pupils throughout the school, the principles of Christian morality. To this end it shall be his duty to give instruction to the school, as occasion may require, concerning such moral actions and habits as the following: Love and hatred; obedience, willing and forced; truth and falsehood, dissimulation...
Page 114 - And yet it never was in my soul To play so ill a part : But evil is wrought by want of Thought, As well as want of Heart...
Page 272 - We take boys and girls at a time when their impulses are strong for active participation in the vital interests of life, and we confine them within narrow schoolroom cells, with books and pencils as...
Page 287 - It shall be the privilege of every Teacher to open and close the daily exercises of the school by reading a portion of Scripture (out of the common or Douay version, as he may prefer), and by offering the Lord's prayer.

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