School & Society, Band 16

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James McKeen Cattell, Will Carson Ryan, Raymond Walters
Society for the Advancement of Education, 1923
 

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Seite 617 - If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization it expects what never was and never will be...
Seite 246 - The wisdom of a learned man cometh by opportunity of leisure; and he that hath little business shall become wise. — " How can he get wisdom that holdeth the plough, and that glorieth in the goad; that driveth oxen; and is occupied in their labours; and whose talk is of bullocks?
Seite 618 - A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy, or perhaps both.
Seite 135 - That all the educational facilities encouraged by the provisions of this Act and accepted by a State shall be organized, supervised, and administered exclusively by the legally constituted State and local educational authorities...
Seite 246 - Without these cannot a city be inhabited ; And they shall not dwell where they will, nor go up and down: They shall not be sought for in public counsel, Nor sit high in the congregation: They shall not sit on the judges...
Seite 619 - On the side of the Union it is a struggle for maintaining in the world that form and substance of Government whose leading object is to elevate the condition of men ; to lift artificial weights from all shoulders ; to clear the paths of laudable pursuit for all ; to afford all an unfettered start and a fair chance in the race of life.
Seite 245 - Two men I honour, and no third. First, the toilworn Craftsman that with earth-made Implement laboriously conquers the earth, and makes her man's. Venerable to me is the hard Hand; crooked, coarse; wherein notwithstanding lies a cunning virtue indefeasibly royal, as of the Sceptre of this Planet. Venerable too is the rugged face, all weather-tanned, besoiled, with its rude intelligence; for it is the face of a Man living manlike.
Seite 617 - Promote, then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened.
Seite 631 - It droppeth as the gentle rain from Heaven Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest: It blesseth him that gives and him that takes.
Seite 245 - A second man I honour and still more highly, him who is seen toiling for the spiritually indispensable, not daily bread but the bread of life.

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