The Free School Idea in Virginia Before the Civil War: A Phase of Political and Social Evolution

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Teachers College, Columbia University, 1918 - 225 стор.
 

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Сторінка 15 - By this means twenty of the best geniuses will be raked from the rubbish annually, and be instructed, at the public expense, so far as the grammar schools go.
Сторінка 175 - Each city and county shall be held accountable for the destruction of school property that may take place within its limits by incendiaries or open "violence.
Сторінка 216 - Adams: Educational extension In the United States, p. 275-379. *6. Some historical documents bearing upon common school education in Virginia and South Carolina previous to the civil war, p.
Сторінка 105 - English" or elementary schools, we are not so certain. Hugh Jones tells us in 1724: "In most parishes there are schools (little Houses being built on Purpose) where are taught English and Writing; but to prevent the sowing of the Seeds of Dissention and Faction it is to be wished that the Masters or Mistresses should be such as are approved or licensed by the Minister and Vestry of the Parish or justices of the County, the Clerks of the Parishes...
Сторінка 171 - The general assembly shall provide by law, at its first session under this constitution, a uniform system of public free schools, and for its gradual, equal, and full introduction into all the counties of the state, by the year 1876, or as much earlier as practicable.
Сторінка 49 - Literary Fund." This board was to invest the funds and to dispose of the interest as directed by the General Assembly. The fund was " to provide a school or schools for the education of the poor in each and every county of the Commonwealth."1 By an act of 1816 a debt paid to Virginia by the Federal Government was added to the small fund which had accumulated. This payment was a loan for the War of 1812, and amounted to $1,210,550. In 1818 the first appropriation was made from the interest of the...
Сторінка 27 - One Master [often a lad from fourteen to eighteen years of age] can be rendered competent to the government of a school containing from 200 to 1000 Scholars. The Expense of Education for each Individual will also diminish in proportion as the Number under the care of the same master increases.
Сторінка 183 - Estate, all the Negroes should be sold, and the money put to Interest in safe hands, and let the Lands which these Negroes now work lie wholly uncultivated, the bare Interest of the Price of the Negroes would be a much greater yearly income than what is now received from their working the Lands, making no allowance at all for the trouble and Risk of the Masters as to the Crops and Negroes.
Сторінка 17 - How powerfully did we feel the energy of this organization in the case of embargo? I felt the foundations of the government shaken under my feet by the New England townships.
Сторінка 148 - If sixty days' tuition to one half of the indigent children of the state is the grand result which our present system is able to accomplish after so many years of persevering...

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