 | Benson John Lossing - United States - 1901 - 522 pages
...Education was long a crude affair, and a boy like Abraham Lincoln found " some schools, so-called, but no qualification was ever required of a teacher beyond...the neighborhood, he was looked upon as a wizard. There was absolutely nothing to stimulate ambition for education." The LOW WIT M; MISSISSIPPL ' earliest... | |
 | John George Nicolay - Presidents - 1902 - 604 pages
...and other wild animals still in the woods. There I grew up. There were some schools so called, but no qualification was ever required of a teacher beyond...the neighborhood, he was looked upon as a wizard. There was absolutely nothing to excite ambition for education." As Abraham was only in his eighth year... | |
 | Henry Watterson - Southern States - 1903 - 490 pages
...with many bears and other animals still in the woods. . . . There were some schools, so-called, but no qualification was ever required of a teacher beyond...in the neighborhood he was looked upon as a wizard. ... Of course, when I came of age I did not know much. Still, somehow, I could read, write, and cipher... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1903 - 394 pages
...and other wild animals still in the woods. There I grew up. There were some schools, so called, but no qualification was ever required of a teacher beyond...in the neighborhood he was looked upon as a wizard. There was absolutely nothing to excite ambition for education. Of course, when I came of age I did... | |
 | Henry Watterson - Southern States - 1903 - 500 pages
...There were some schools, so-called, but no qualification was ever required of a teacher beyond 144 'readin', writin', and cipherin' to the rule of three.'...in the neighborhood he was looked upon as a wizard. . . . Of course, when I came of age I did not know much. Still, somehow, I could read, write, and cipher... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1903 - 460 pages
...and other wild animals still in the woods. There I grew up. There were some schools, so called, but no qualification was ever required of a teacher beyond...straggler supposed to understand Latin happened to soj ourn in the neighborhood he was looked upon as a wizard. There was absolutely nothing to excite... | |
 | Ida Minerva Tarbell - 1900 - 300 pages
...of the teachers, it was, perhaps, just as well that it was only " by littles." No qualification was required of a teacher beyond " readin", writin,' and...to the rule of three." If a straggler supposed to know Latin happened to sojourn in the neighborhood, he was looked upon as a "wizard." But more or less... | |
 | Clifton Johnson - Education - 1904 - 486 pages
...the schoolmasters that " No qualification was ever required beyond ' readin', writin', and cypherin' to the Rule of Three.' If a straggler supposed to...the neighborhood, he was looked upon as a wizard." Teaching offered no rewards sufficient to attract men of education or capacity, and it sometimes seemed... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Illinois - 1905 - 428 pages
...with many bears and other animals still in the woods. . . . There were some schools, so-called, but no qualification was ever required of a teacher beyond...in the neighborhood he was looked upon as a wizard. . . . Of course, when I came of age I did not know much. Still, somehow, I could read, write, and cipher... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Illinois - 1905 - 428 pages
.... There were some schools, so-called, but no qualification was ever required of a teacher beyond l readin', writin', and cipherin' to the rule of three.'...in the neighborhood he was looked upon as a wizard. ... Of course, when I came of age I did not know much. Still, somehow, I could read, write, and cipher... | |
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... to the rule of three. If a straggler supposed to understand Latin happened to sojourn in the neighborhood, he was looked upon as a wizard. There was absolutely nothing to excite ambition for education. Of course, when I came of age I did not know... 
