Thus originated the popular or common schools, or the free education of the people, as an outgrowth of the Catholic Church.
Abbe, touching her ability to teach, both in regard to her education and to her moral character, and I find her well qualified for a teacher of common schools.
Andrews, who had been a member of the last board of commissioners of common schools.
At this time the town's educational interests were in the hands of three commissioners of common schools.
These are receipts given by the trustees of several of the school districts for State moneys received from the commissioners of common schools.
In 1843 the office of town superintendent was instituted, thus doing away with the board of three commissioners of common schools.
Cooke was elected to the office of superintendent of common schools in Warren county.
No person who may have been, or shall be, elected or appointed to the office of county superintendent of common schools, or director, in the State of Iowa, shall be deprived of office by reason of sex.
These children were chosen by lot from names submitted by Trustee Boards of Common Schools.
The conviction that the life of the Republic demanded an educated and intelligent citizenship, and hence the general education of all in common schools controlled by the State; and 2.
Each State admitted after Ohio also received the sixteenth section for the support of common schools, and two townships of land for the endowment of a state university.
In enacting the new law [8] providing for state aid for schools the first State Superintendent of Common Schools in the United States was created.
His administration, too, saw the earliest attempts made in a systematic way toward the spread of education among the multitudes, his message to the Legislature of 1795 urging a generous appropriation to common schools.
But the founders and early settlers of Massachusetts did not limit their views of education to common schools.
The highest school officer is the state superintendent of common schools, or, as he is sometimes called, superintendent of public instruction.
From their being supported by a common fund, and designed for the common benefit, or from the lower or more common branches being taught in them, they are also called common schools.
It was, however, provided that a greater sum should never be paid to any city or town than was raised therein for the support of common schools.
In obedience to this idea, she has established colleges, common schools, grammar schools, academies, and at last the Normal School.
The rumor alone, however, of such cheer gladdened the heart of every thirsty voter, and contributed greatly to the establishment of the system of common schools.
There will be quite a crowd, for several able speakers are to discuss the question of common schools.
They knocked at every door and entered every house to solicit votes in favor of common schools.
They are required to carry on the work which is begun in common schools, to prepare members for the higher seminaries of learning, and especially to raise up a generation of teachers for the inferior schools.
The qualifications which have been mentioned are important, not only in the higher seminaries, but also in common schools.
A collegiate education is not essential to this purpose, because many of the branches taught in a college will not be required to be taught in common schools.
It has been suggested, in some of the public prints, that it should be the business of the superintendent of common schools to select text-books for the common schools in the state of New-York.
The course just proposed would equally contribute to raise the character and promote the interests of common schools.
Those communities in which there are no common schools, and in which the people generally are in a state of deplorable ignorance, are precisely those in which the sense of parental obligation on this point is at the lowest ebb.
When a community is taxed for the support of common schools, the question naturally rises among the taxpayers, Is the system worth the cost?
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