Report of the Virginia Education Commission: To the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Virginia. 1912, Volume 43 |
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Page 55 - It occurred to me, that woman, having received from her Creator the same intellectual constitution as man, has the same right to intellectual culture and development.
Page 20 - An institution to be ranked as a college, must have at least six (6) professors giving their entire time to college and university work, a course of four full years in liberal arts and sciences, and should require for admission, not less than the usual four years of academic or high school preparation, or its equivalent, in addition to the preacademic or grammar school studies.
Page 50 - A state board of truancy, to consist of the state superintendent of public instruction, a member of the state board of education, designated by that board for such purpose, and the secretary of the board of state charities, is hereby created.
Page 66 - A democratic community can not endure without adequate provision for the training of all its citizenship in intelligence, in character, in leadership and In economic efficiency. As a matter of life and death, therefore, the State undertakes to train its children. An educated citizen is a more valuable asset to the State than an ignorant one. He will produce more revenue and be less likely to become a liability, It is. only on the ground of an investment — an economic necessity — that the State...
Page 18 - State was then entitled for the "endowment, support, and maintenance of at least one college where the leading object shall be to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts...
Page 58 - We have provided in the articles of endowment that the education of the sexes shall be equal, deeming it of special importance that those who are to be the mothers of a future generation shall be fitted to mold and direct the infantile mind at its most critical period.
Page 66 - The ability of this generation to recognize education as something larger than mere learning or even discipline, to perceive it as a great force molding national character, has caused the enlistment into this field of work of young men and young women of creative capacity and exalted character, who, under other conditions in Southern history, would have instinctively turned to political and social fields of distinction and service.
Page 21 - Arts and Sciences two years of general or liberal work completing or supplementing the work of the high school. 3. Which offers a further course of two years so arranged that the student may begin work of university character, leading to the bachelor's degree at the end, and reaching forward to the continuation of this work in the graduate school or the professional school.
Page 58 - During the period 1870-1892, 16 per cent, of the men and 12 per cent, of the women who registered as freshmen remained to graduate.
Page 21 - ... the work of the college at the close of the sophomore year toward university work in the real sense. If these views are just, we suggest the following formulation of principles underlying the organization of such an institution and we may define the standard American university to be an institution: (1) Which requires for admission the completion of the curriculum of a standard American high school with a...