The Educational Year-book, Volume 2

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A.S. Barnes & Company, 1873 - Education
 

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Page 40 - ... knowledge of these is most likely to be propagated through a society by the institution of the public worship of the Deity and of public instruction in morality and religion, therefore, to promote...
Page 74 - Religion, morality and knowledge being necessary to good government, the preservation of liberty, and the happiness of mankind, schools and the means of education, shall forever be encouraged in this State.
Page 106 - Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin.
Page 51 - ... no man can of right be compelled to attend, erect or support any place of worship, or to maintain any ministry against his consent...
Page 118 - The well-known advantages of education. It is universally conceded that a good system of education fosters virtue, truth, submission to authority, enterprise, and thrift, and thereby promotes national prosperity...
Page 118 - Universal education can not be secured without aid from the public authorities; or, in other words, the State, for its own protection and progress, should see that public schools are established in which at least the rudiments of an education may be acquired by every boy and girl. V.
Page 28 - The total amount of taxes paid for school- purposes by the colored people of any county or in the city of Baltimore, together with any donations that may be made for the purpose, shall also be devoted to the maintenance of the schools for colored people.
Page 69 - ... truly wonderful. This great enmity to schools and intelligence can only be accounted for as follows: that the people are so far sunk in ignorance that they are not really capable of judging of the advantages of education. From this result the cause of education has but little to hope for from the popular will, and the verdict shows that the people love darkness better than light.

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