The California Teacher: A Journal of School and Home Education and Official Organ of the Department of Public Instruction, Volume 8

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California Educational Society, 1870
 

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Page 115 - Divide the numerator of the dividend by the numerator of the divisor.
Page 358 - It is our intimate conviction, that one of the most effective agencies in the repression of crime would be the enactment of laws, by which the education of all the children of the state should be made obligatory. Better to force education upon the people than to force them into prison to expiate crimes, of which the neglect of education and consequent ignorance have been the occasion, if not the cause.
Page 217 - Tis granted, and no plainer truth appears, Our most important are our earliest years; The Mind, impressible and soft, with ease Imbibes and copies what she hears and sees, And through life's labyrinth holds fast the clue, That Education gives her, false or true.
Page 212 - ... works are respectfully commended to Teachers and others as the best Dictionaries in use. More than TEN times as many are sold of WEBSTER'S Dictionaries as of any other series in this country, and they are much more extensively used than all others combined. At...
Page 181 - Astronomy, accompanied with numerous Illustrations, a Colored representation of the Solar, Stellar, and Nebular Spectra, and Celestial Charts of the Northern and the Southern Hemispheres.
Page 358 - Education is a vital force in the reformation of fallen men and women. Its tendency is to quicken the intellect, inspire self-respect, excite to higher aims, and afford a healthful substitute for low and vicious amusements.
Page 195 - Resolved, That the thanks of this Association be tendered to Z. Richards, Esq., our retiring President, for the able and impartial manner in which he has presided over the deliberations of this body.
Page 212 - Dic-TiiiNAiiY in the strongest terms. Among them are those of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, West Virginia, Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Michigan, Iowa, Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Carolina, Alabama, California, and also Canada,— TWENTY-FOUR in all.
Page 293 - Instructions how to obtain Letters Patent for new inventions ; including a variety of useful information concerning the rules and practice of the Patent Office ; how to sell patents ; how to secure foreign patents ; forms for assignments and licenses, together with engravings and descriptions of the condensing steam-engine, and the principal mechanical movements, valuable tables, calculations, problems, etc., etc.
Page 121 - STUDENT'S MYTHOLOGY; A COMPENDIUM OF Greek) Roman, Egyptian, Assyrian, Persian, Hindoo, Chinese, Thibetan, Scandinavian, Celtic, Aztec, and Peruvian Mythologies, in accordance •with Standard Authorities. Arranged for the use of Schools and Academies by CA WHITE.

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