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Common terms and phrasesAmerican Annual Reports Backward Children Baltimore Board of Education Boston cent Chicago Chil child Cincinnati Cities Having Special Cleveland Commissioner of Education Connecticut Crippled Children curve rising day classes day schools Deaf and Blind Deaf and Dumb deaf children Deaf-Mutes developed dren Educa epileptic established Feeble-Minded grades Graph Hospital Illinois immigration increasing number Industrial Home Industrial School instruction Iowa Jersey juvenile delinquent Macmillan Company Maryland Mass Massachusetts mental defectives Michigan Missouri National Education Association Negro Deaf normal number of cities Ohio open-air school organized Orphans Paul Monroe Pennsylvania Philadelphia Protectory public school public school classes pupils Reform School retarded School for Boys School for Girls semi-public control Semi-Public Institutions Opened social South Carolina South Dakota special classes speech defective subnormal superintendent teachers tion Training School transfer from private Transferred from semi-public truants tuberculosis United States Commissioner Virginia Washington Wisconsin Witmer York City Popular passagesPage 1 - It is therefore ordered, That every township in this jurisdiction, after the Lord hath increased them to the number of fifty householders, shall then forthwith appoint one within their town to teach all such children as shall resort to him to write and read... Page 4 - It shall be the duty of the General assembly, as soon as circumstances will permit, to provide, by law, for a general system of education, ascending in a regular gradation, from township schools to a state university, wherein tuition shall be gratis, and equally open to all. Page 2 - A system of general instruction which shall reach every description of our citizens from the richest to the poorest, as it was the earliest, so will it be the latest of all the public concerns in which I shall permit myself to take an interest. Page 2 - 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. Page 2 - Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness. In one in which the measures of government receive their impressions so immediately from the sense of the community as in ours, it is proportionably essential. Page 2 - If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be. Page 3 - The first duty of government, and the surest evidence of good government, is the encouragement of education. A general diffusion of knowledge is a precursor and protector of republican institutions, and in it we must confide as the conservative power that will watch over our liberties and guard them against fraud, intrigue, corruption, and violence. Page 44 - Representatives, moved an order providing for the appointment of a committee to "consider the expediency of appointing commissioners to inquire into the condition of idiots in the Commonwealth, to ascertain their number, and whether anything can be done for their relief. Page 88 - All life therefore comes back to the question of our speech, the medium through which we communicate with each other; for all life comes back to the question of our relations with each other. Page 4 - Nature and in the history of the race, (which proves the absolute right to an education of every human being that comes into the world... References to this bookFrom Google ScholarThe Institutional Genesis of Special Education: The American CaseJohn G Richardson, Tara L Parker - 1993 - American Journal of Education References from web pagesAdjustment of school organization to various population groups. By ... Bibliographic information
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