Early Educational Leadership in the Ohio Valley: A Study of Educational Reconstruction Through the Western Literary Institute and College of Professional Teachers, 1829-1841, Випуск 5Public school publishing Company, 1923 - 120 стор. |
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Сторінка 38 - Valley system of earthworks may be said to embrace all that region that lies between the Great Lakes on the north and the Gulf of Mexico on the south, and...
Сторінка 38 - ... the setting sun, sweeping away the wilderness before it like grass before the mower; waking up industry and civilization in its progress; studding the solitary rivers of the West with marts and cities; dotting its boundless prairies with human habitations ; penetrating every green...
Сторінка 34 - Augustus was praised as a god, while he trampled on the neck of Roman liberty ; and Napoleon, as First Consul, made his triumphal entry into Paris, crowned with flowers by the hand of beauty, and cheered with the plaudits of admiring thousands. Let us then no longer hug the delusion, that in a popular government, which is ever the mirror of the popular mind, imaging forth the character as well as the wishes of the people, a free constitution, and an impartial representation, are all that is necessary...
Сторінка 89 - Christian religion, in connection with the cotemporary civil history ; and the doctrines of Christianity ; 2. Knowledge of the world, and of mankind, including civil society, elements of law, agriculture, mechanic arts, manufactures, &c. ; 3. Language, and exercises in composition ; 4. Application of arithmetic and the mathematics to the business of life, including surveying and civil engineering ; 5. Elements of Drawing ; 6. Exercises in Singing, and the science of music.
Сторінка 8 - In these new western lands Americans achieved a boldness of conception of the country's destiny and democracy. The ideal of the West was its emphasis upon the worth and possibilities of the common man, its belief in the right of every man to rise to the full measure of his own nature under conditions of social mobility.
Сторінка 35 - I repeat, they are our teachers, the masters of our schools, the instructors in our academies and colleges, and in all those institutions, of whatever name, which have for their object the intellectual and moral culture of our youth, and the diffusion of knowledge among our people. Theirs is the moral dignity of stamping the great features of our national character ; and, in the moral worth and intelligence which they give it, to erect a bulwark which shall prove impregnable in that hour of trial,...
Сторінка 39 - ... and civilization in its progress ; studding the solitary rivers of the West with marts and cities ; dotting its boundless prairies with human habitations ; penetrating every green nook and vale; climbing every fertile ridge ; and still gathering and pouring onward, to form new States in those vast and yet unpeopled solitudes where the Oregon rolls his majestic flood, and " hears no sound save his own dashing.
Сторінка 35 - internal improvement," — more thoroughly internal than that which is cried up by politicians — that is able to save this country ; I mean the improvement of the minds and souls of her people. If this improvement shall be neglected, and shall fail to keep pace with the increase of our population and our physical advancement, one of two alternatives is certain : either the nation must dissolve in anarchy under the...
Сторінка 35 - ... choice, or, if held together at all, it must be by a government so strong and rigorous as to be utterly inconsistent with constitutional liberty. Let the one hundred millions which, at no very distant day, will swarm our cities, and fill up our great interior, remain sunk in ignorance, and nothing short of an iron despotism will suffice to govern the nation ; to reconcile its vast and conflicting interests, control its elements of agitation, and hold back its fiery and headlong energies from...
Сторінка 34 - We boast it as the distinguishing feature of our institutions, that all power lies with the people. This is well, while the people are capacitated to use it intelligently and wisely ; otherwise, it is but a knife in the hands of a maniac. A Republic, in which the great mass of the people, who hold the sovereign power, is given up to ignorance and degradation, is the grandest treason that can be devised against humanity.