Rise and Progress of Scottish EducationOliver and Boyd, 1927 - 234 páginas |
Términos y frases comunes
1864 Commission abbey Aberdeen Academy Adamnan administration Andrew Melville annual appointed attending Bequest Book of Discipline burgh schools bursaries century CHAPTER Church of Scotland Columba Commissioners Committee continuation classes course curriculum Day Schools districts Dundee ecclesiastical Edinburgh Education Act Education Authority Education Department education in Scotland Education Scotland endowments English established examination fees given Glasgow graduate grammar schools grant heritors High School higher Hospital institution instruction Knox Latin learning Leaving Certificate master Melville ment monasteries monks Ordinances organisation parish schools Parliament parochial schools passed presbyteries Privy Council Professors public schools pupils Reformation Regents Regulations religious Roman Catholic Roman Catholic Church salary School Boards schoolmaster schools in Scotland Scottish education Scottish Parliament Scottish Universities secondary education secondary schools Secretary for Scotland Senatus St Andrews subjects taught teaching Third Report tion Town Council Training Colleges training of teachers University Court
Pasajes populares
Página 161 - University training is the great ordinary means to a great but ordinary end; it aims at raising the intellectual tone of society, at cultivating the public mind, at purifying the national taste, at supplying true principles to popular enthusiasm and fixed aims to popular aspiration, at giving enlargement and sobriety to the ideas of the age, at facilitating the exercise of political power, and refining the intercourse of private life.
Página 57 - Edinburgh as now established by law shall continue within this kingdom for ever, and that in all time coming no professors, principals, regents, masters or others bearing office in any university, college or school within this kingdom be capable or be admitted or allowed to continue in the exercise of their said functions but such as shall own and acknowledge the civil government in manner prescribed or to be prescribed by the Acts of Parliament, as...
Página 166 - And whereas it is desirable to amend and extend the provisions of the law of Scotland on the subject of education, in such manner that the means of procuring efficient education for their children may be furnished and made available to the whole people of Scotland...
Página 44 - If it be upland [ie rural] where the people convene to doctrine but once in the week, then must either the Reader or the Minister there appointed, take care over the children and youth of the parish, to instruct them in their first rudiments, and especially in the Catechism, as we have it now translated in the Book of our Common Order, called the Order of Geneva.
Página 12 - ... literature, they gathered a crowd of disciples, and there daily flowed from them rivers of knowledge to water the hearts of their hearers ; and, together with the books of holy writ, they also taught them the arts of poetry, astronomy, and ecclesiastical arithmetic.
Página 43 - For as they must succeed to us, so we ought to be careful that they have knowledge, and erudition to profit and comfort that which ought to be most dear to us, to wit, the kirk and spouse of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Página 158 - Medicine, also for improving and extending the opportunities for scientific study and research, and to increasing the facilities for acquiring a knowledge of History, Economics, English Literature and Modern Languages, and such other subjects cognate to a technical or commercial education as can be brought within the scope of the University curriculum...
Página 167 - Provided, that due care shall be taken by the Scotch Education Department, in the construction of such minutes, that the standard of education which now exists in the public schools shall not be lowered...
Página 56 - Presbytery, as they shall judge convenient; and it is hereby declared, that all schoolmasters, and teachers of youth in schools, are and shall be liable to the trial, judgment, and censure of the Presbyteries of the bounds, for their sufficiency, qualifications, and deportment in the said office.
Página 95 - England, and these also began to attract the attention of the Scots. Perth Town Council in 1760 heard a report from their adviser, the Rev. James Bonnar: In times long past, all learning was made to consist in the grammatical knowledge of dead languages . . . but Providence has cast our lot in happier times, when things begin to be valued according to their use, and men of the greatest abilities have employed their skill in making the sciences contribute ... to the improvement of the merchant, mechanic...