American Annals of EducationWilliam Russell, William Channing Woodbridge, Fordyce Mitchell Hubbard Wait, Greene, and Company, 1837 - Education |
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Page 137 - ... 2. A library, not necessarily large, but well chosen, of books on subjects to be taught, and on the art of teaching. 3. School-rooms, well situated, and arranged, heated, ventilated, and furnished, in the manner best approved by experienced teachers. 4. A select apparatus of globes, maps, and other instruments most useful for illustration. 5. A situation such that a school may be connected with the seminary, accessible by a sufficient number of children, to give the variety of an ordinary district...
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Page 377 - I am persuaded he loved me, but he seemed not willing that I should know it. I was with him in a state of fear and bondage. His sternness, together with the severity of my schoolmaster, broke and overawed my spirit, and almost made me a dolt; so that part of the two years I was at school, instead of making a progress, I nearly forgot all that my good mother had taught me.