Teachers in Germany in the Sixteenth Century: Conditions in Protestant Elementary and Secondary Schools

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Teachers college, Columbia university, 1912 - Education - 126 pages

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Page 37 - Ein gesprech des Herrn mit S. Petro von der ietzigen welt lauf und irem verkertem bosem wesenf...
Page 107 - We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts : knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.
Page 51 - The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things ; that they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children, to be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.
Page 109 - What is one to say of the morals of the boys? One of the results of the Fall of Man is that parents set a bad example for their children, swearing, making wicked jests, eating and drinking immoderately at an overladen table, wearing such clothes as even the devil himself would not wear. But it would be easier to count the waves of the troubled sea than to enumerate the whole list of sins. From such a source nothing but corrupt offspring can come; as in the sowing, so is the reaping. . . . The morals...
Page 123 - Mecklenburg-Schwerin und Strelitz. Dr. H. Schnell. Erster Band: Urkunden und Akten zur Geschichte des mecklenburgischen Unterrichtswesens. Mittelalter und Zeit der Reformation. Vol. XLV contains an "Ueberblick iiber die geschichtliche Entwicklung des Unterrichtswesens" by the same author. VOL. XLI. Mittelschulgeschichtliche Dokumente Altbayerns, einschliesslich Regensburg. Dr. George Lusz. Vol. XLII of Monumenta is the second of the work of Lusz. Berlin, 1907, 1908. VOL. XLVII. Dokumente zur Geschichte...
Page 14 - I 1. Introductory. General need and purpose of education. 2. Class division and basis of division. Each class is treated separately and work is prescribed for each day of the week. Thus, for the Fourth Class the following is prescribed for Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays: At six o'clock: Catechism. At seven o'clock: Reading. At eight o'clock: Presentation of dialogues by boys in pairs. After that follow exercises in Latin forms. At twelve o'clock : Writing and correction of exercises (Latin...
Page 124 - Die Annaberger Lateinschule zur Zeit der ersten Blute der Stadt und ihrer Schule im XVI Jahrhundert.
Page 14 - ... forms. At twelve o'clock: Writing and correction of exercises (Latin and German). At one o'clock: Declensions, conjugations, etc. At two o'clock : Exercises for increasing vocabulary, — with short statement of method. 3. Disputations and declamations. 4. Holidays. 5. Examinations and promotions. Part II 1. The rector: Duties and jurisdiction. 2. Duties of professors and associates. 3. Duties of pupils in general. 4. Piety. 5. Duties of pupils to teachers. 6. Duties of pupils in school. 7. Instruction...
Page 106 - Give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine,' a passage which, not without purpose, mentions reading first, for the Gospel is very different from all other knowledge, religion, and sects. Other knowledge, such as computation and measuring, would be developed by the natural understanding of man, even though they were not found in the Scripture. But the divine promise of grace is not a light that is born in us, as is computation or law; but it is the wonderful counsel of God, above and...
Page 70 - The funds which came into the general treasury of the church were derived from a variety of sources. In the first place there were the church lands which were a reasonably reliable source of revenue.

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