Journal of Proceedings and Addresses of the ... Annual MeetingThe Association, 1873 |
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Seite 127 - By-Laws not inconsistent with this Constitution may be adopted by a twothirds vote of the Association. ARTICLE VII.—Amendments. This Constitution may be altered or amended at a regular meeting by the unanimous vote of the members present; or by a two-thirds vote of the members present, provided that the alteration or amendment has been substantially proposed
Seite 126 - 6. The Secretary shall keep a full and accurate record of the proceedings of the general meetings of the Association and all meetings of the Board of Directors; shall conduct such correspondence as the Directors may assign; and shall
Seite 39 - can long exist to any beneficial and salutary purpose without schools for the training of teachers; for, if the character and qualifications of teachers be allowed to degenerate, the free schools will become pauper schools, and the pauper schools will produce pauper souls; and the free press will become a false and
Seite 141 - method of teaching. Suppose we desire to communicate what may be properly called abstract ideas. Let us take impenetrability for instance. We wish the pupil to get for the first time the idea that "two bodies can not occupy the same space at the same time." The common and almost universal method of making pupils get this
Seite 126 - name in Article II, and the Secretary shall make the necessary alterations. ARTICLE V.—Meetings. ? 1. The annual meeting of the Association shall be held in August. The place and precise time of meeting shall be determined by the Board of
Seite 69 - or her bodily or mental condition has been such as to prevent his or her attendance at School or appliaction to study for the period required." That is all! Is it not frightful! And yet no other state has proposed any thing much more terrible, so far as I know. despotic, arbitrary, inquisitorial, repugnant, un-American, anti-republican, invasive of private rights, monstrous,
Seite 282 - great stimulation of the mental activity of the pupil through trial and competition with other members of his class. These three advantages can scarcely be overestimated. They multiply the teacher's power just as organization improves the strength of an army. In the unclassified system the teacher is only a private tutor, and
Seite 69 - as some seem to imagine. That is but a goblin of the fancy, and, like all other phantoms of the brain, vanishes into thin air when closely confronted and interrogated. The proposed legal incentives to attendance, unfortunately called compulsion, belong to the simplest and most familiar category of legislative provisions. They
Seite 35 - Baker, Georgia. The Association then adjourned. John Swett, California. SECOND DAY'S PROCEEDINGS. MORNING SESSION.—WEDNESDAY, AUG. V. The Association was called to order by the President. Prayer was offered by Rev. DA
Seite 88 - explanations and illustrations and idioms of Lindley Murray — that great grammarian who wrote bad English, and made sad the hearts of unnumbered generations of school boys and school girls: twisted and elliptical sentences to parse according to Smith, or Brown, or Greene, or Wells, or Weld, or Sanborn, or Kerl, or Hart, or .Clark, or Quackenbos, or Bullions,