Annual Report of the Normal, Model, Grammar, and Common Schools in Ontario for the Year ...: With AppendicesHunter, Rose & Company, 1873 - Education |
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Page 4 - that now is, as well as of that which is to come. 1 prefer the order of Providence, and the principles on which our civil institutions and all our associations for public and social improvements are conducted, to the dead-level notions of stationary teachers, and the envious murmurings of negligent and unsuccessful pupils and their too partial friends. Were the
Page 42 - no schoolmaster of mine had a knowledge of Natural History, so far, at least, as to have taught the little winged and wingless neighbours that are continually meeting me with a salutation which I cannot answer, as things are. Why didn't
Page 24 - people of taste going to Italy constantly bring home beautiful copies of beautiful originals," it is desired, even in England, that those who have not the opportunity or means of travelling abroad, should be enabled to see, in the form of an accurate copy, some of the works of
Page 62 - per cent, of all our crime, and less than one-fifth of one per cent, is committed by those who are educated. " ' II. As in New England, so throughout all the country, from 80 to 90 per cent, have never learned any trade, or mastered any skilled labour ; which leads to the conclusion that
Page 70 - be solved, excuses for tardiness or absence received, questions answered, whisperings allowed or suppressed, and more or less of extempore discipline administered. Were it not a most ruinous waste of precious time—did it not involve the deadening, crushing, distorting, dwarfing of immortal faculties and noble sensibilities—were it not an utter perversion of the noble objects for which Schools are
Page 53 - when erected ; with what funds built ; how lighted, warmed, and ventilated ; if any class rooms are provided for the separate instruction of part of the children ; if there is a lobby, or closet, for hats, cloaks, bonnets, book presses, &c. ; how the desks and seats are arranged and constructed
Page 42 - me the constellations too, and make me at home in the starry heavens which are always overhead, and which I don't half know to this day
Page 20 - far as I have been able to obtain returns, the number of students and pupils attending them, and the amount expended in their support. The whole number of these institutions in 1871, was 5,004—increase, 34; the whole number of students and pupils attending them was 463,057—increase, 3,896 ; the total amount expended for all educational purposes was
Page 89 - higher branches of an English and Commercial Education, including the Natural Sciences, with special reference to Agriculture," it was clearly intended that the lower or elementary branches of an English education should not be taught in the High Schools, but in the Public Schools. It was also intended that all pupils to be eligible for
Page 41 - other studies the observing faculties, disciplines the intellect by teaching induction as well as deduction, supplies a useful balance to the studies of language and mathematics, and provides much instruction of great value for the occupations of after-life." IX.—The Study of Natural History in the Schools.