Annual Report of the Controllers of the Public Schools of the City and County of Philadelphia, Volumes 31-34Board of Controllers, 1849 - Education |
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Page 187 - OUR sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our senses. It fills the mind with the largest variety of ideas, converses with its objects at the greatest distance, and continues the longest in action without being tired or satiated with its proper enjoyments. The sense of feeling can indeed give us a notion of extension, shape, and all other ideas that enter at the eye, except colours ; but at the same time it is very much straitened, and confined in its operations, to the number, bulk,...
Page 100 - What nothing earthly gives or can destroy, The soul's calm sun-shine, and the heart-felt joy, Is virtue's prize; a better would you fix? Then give humility a coach and six, Justice a conqueror's sword, or truth a gown, Or public spirit, its great cure, a crown.
Page 196 - Let ABC be a triangle, of which the side AC is greater than the side AB; the angle ABC shall be greater than the angle BCA.
Page 128 - ... of her scholars, seldom fails to produce great exertion on the part of the latter, and instances are not unfrequent. where the teacher and pupils emulate each other, in their efforts to promote one another's happiness. If to all these, is added the watchful care of the principal, the results can not be other than satisfactory. The pupil-teachers, before meeting their classes, are required carefully to study the lessons to be recited during the day, that they may add interest to the exercises,...
Page 235 - ... as essential qualifications in forming the perfect teacher, no certificate is granted to a pupil deficient in either. As a test of the candidate's literary qualifications, the results of every examination, from the time of her admission to the completion of the full course of study, in connection with her daily recitations, are considered. In estimating her ability to teach, and tact in school discipline, her performances in the schools of practice, occupying more than one-sixth of the time of...
Page 236 - THIS is TO CERTIFY. That has pursued and completed, in a satisfactory manner, the course of study of the NORMAL SCHOOL, and is deemed competent to impart instruction in the branches taught in the Public Grammar Schools. Principal. By authority of the Controller* of Public School*.
Page 242 - ... all the intellectual and moral powers, and awaken and call forth every talent that may be committed to her care. Carefully watching the results of the training described, the pleasing conclusion presents itself to my mind, that, as the methods of teaching are good in the opinion of the pupils themselves, and as mechanical modes give place to systems adapted to the development of the faculties, so the interest of the pupils is awakened ; illustrating the important fact, that whether in schools...
Page 87 - That the degree of Bachelor of Arts shall hereafter be conferred upon all pupils of the High School who shall meritoriously complete the four years' course ; and the degree of Master of Arts upon such graduates of not less than five years' standing, as shall by their general merit, in the judgment of the committee, entitle themselves to that distinction.
Page 144 - Students not previously accustomed to a mild method of discipline, sometimes mistake it at first for want of firmness. But such mistakes are soon rectified. The whole machinery of the school, like an extended piece of net-work, is thrown over and around him, and made to bear upon him not with any great amount of force at any one time or place, but with a restraining influence just sufficient, and always and every where present. Some of the most hopeless cases of idleness and insubordination that...
Page 196 - The sum of the three sides of a spherical triangle is less than the circumference of a great circle. Let ABC be any spherical triangle; produce the sides AB, AU, till they meet again in D.