The Rocky Mountain Educator: A Monthly Journal Devoted to the Interests of the Teachers, Students ..., Volumen1

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1895
 

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Página 213 - I find this conclusion more impressed upon me, — that the greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something, and tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for one who can see. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy, and religion, — all in one.
Página 165 - Saw the moon rise from the water Rippling, rounding from the water, Saw the flecks and shadows on it, Whispered, "What is that, Nokomis?" And the good Nokomis answered: "Once a warrior, very angry, Seized his grandmother, and threw her Up into the sky at midnight; Right against the moon he threw her; Tis her body that you see there." Saw the rainbow in the heaven, In the eastern sky, the rainbow, Whispered, "What is that, Nokomis?
Página 216 - The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept. Were toiling upward in the night.
Página 216 - The longer I live, the more I am certain that the great difference between men, between the feeble and the powerful, the great and the insignificant, is energy — invincible determination ; a purpose once fixed and then death or victory. That quality will do anything that can be done in this world, and no talents, no circumstances, no opportunities, will make a two-legged creature a man without it.
Página 55 - ... their district, and enforce them. They may, no doubt, classify the scholars, regulate their studies and their deportment, the hours to be taught, besides the performance of other duties necessary to promote the success and secure the well-being of such schools. But all such rules and regulations -must be reasonable, and calculated to promote the objects of the law — the conferring of such an education upon all, free of charge.
Página 50 - A bow will bow before it ; We cannot rein the rain at all — No earthly power reigns o'er it. The dyer dyes awhile, then dies — To dye he's always trying ; Until upon his dying bed He thinks no more of dyeing.
Página 195 - Sir, you may destroy this little institution; it is weak; it is in your hands! I know it is one of the lesser lights in the literary horizon of our country. You may put it out. But if you do so, you must carry through your work! You must extinguish, one after another, all those great lights of science -which, for more than a century, have thrown their radiance over our land!
Página 57 - Reading. Eight years, with daily lessons. Penmanship. Six years, ten lessons per week for first two years, five for third and fourth, and three for fifth and sixth. Spelling Lists. Fourth, fifth, and sixth years, four lessons per week. Grammar. Oral, with composition or dictation, first year to middle of fifth year, text-book from middle of fifth year to close of seventh year, five lessons per week. (Composition writing should be included under this head. But the written examinations on the several...
Página 56 - The rules must be reasonable and proper ... for the government, good order, and efficiency of the schools— such as will best advance the pupils in their studies, tend to their education and mental improvement, and promote their interest and welfare. But the rules and regulations must relate to these objects. (State ex rel. Bowe v. Board of Education, 63 Wis.
Página 218 - We cannot make bargains for blisses, Nor catch them like fishes in nets ; And sometimes the thing our life misses, Helps more than the thing which it gets. For good lieth not in pursuing, Nor gaining of great nor of small, But just in the doing; and doing As we would be done by, is all.

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