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Example sentences for "school system"

  • An outgrowth of the Sunday-school system, which, under the conduct of a man of genius for organization, Dr.

  • The whole funds from which the school system is to derive support are raised by the people of Canada, and the disposal of them should be subjected to the control of the House through the Executive Council.

  • Yet this Bill has been introduced by a Government raised to power upon the principle that our school system should be free from clerical control.

  • No doubt the people of Upper Canada would, without Ryerson, have worked out a good school system, because a school system must in the end reflect the average intelligence and the fixed ideals of a people.

  • A body of European clergy belonging to the Catholic Church had gone to their Bishop in Boston to request him to use his influence against the free school system.

  • There is not, and never will be, an average child; hence, a school system planned to meet the needs of the average child fits the needs of no child at all.

  • The truth is that society still tolerates, and often accepts, the belief that the purpose of education is the formation of a school system.

  • Hence it follows that no school system is so sacred, no method of teaching so venerable, no textbook so infallible, no machinery of administration so permanent, that it must not give way before the educational needs of childhood.

  • Now a knowledge of these differences, their amounts, interrelations, and causes are very necessary for the planning of a school system or for the planning of the education of a particular child.

  • Education, as the etymology of the term suggests, denotes culture of original tendencies; yet the routine of a school system is frequently organized about formal discipline rather than around interest, aptitude, and attention.

  • To what extent will the national and cultural development of those islands be determined by native temperament, by Spanish speech and tradition, or by the English language and the American school system?

  • Efforts are made to remedy it by the increase of normal schools and teachers' colleges, and by a closer connection between the universities and the public-school system.

  • Each State, as I have said before, has its own common-school system.

  • They have been established by States, and in a few cases by cities, to complete and crown the common-school system.

  • He did, however, see our public-school system, and he said that "by the year Nineteen Hundred the United States will have a population of fifty million people.

  • It will not do to say that Peter Cooper was exactly disgusted with the public-school system of New York, for he, more than any other one man, had evolved it and carried it forward from very meager beginnings.

  • If the entire public-school system of the State had been delegated to Peter Cooper in Eighteen Hundred Fifty, he as sole commissioner could and would have set the world a pace in pedagogy.

  • As preliminary to the answer to be given to this question, it is well to consider what the public-school system is.

  • It gave a wonderful impetus to the schools, and to every department of school system--the effects of which we feel to this day.

  • Being familiar with the Scottish parochial school system, he soon mastered the whole subject, and perceived the great importance to the whole country of the question which was then being so fiercely discussed.

  • Their religious system was put first, and carried with it a school system as perfect in organization, and administered with equal vigor.

  • Horace Mann did his greatest work in remodelling the public-school system of Massachusetts.

  • It constitutes the greatest claim of the public-school system.

  • In 1642, the same date as the first Massachusetts school law (chapter XV), Duke Ernest the Pious of little Saxe-Gotha and Altenburg established the first school system of a modern type in German lands.

  • It is a common delusion that the need of Cuba is a school system of which the basis is the English language.

  • A free public-school system must be immediately established, for much of the misfortune and suffering Cuba has undergone may be traceable to the neglect of education.

  • The Finnish settlers at Rudyard in upper Michigan expressed the wish that the government should give a better public-school system, although the existing schools were said to be standard schools.

  • To make it meet these tasks a uniform public-school system based on standard requirements should be established throughout the country by the Federal, state, and local governments closely co-operating with one another for this purpose.

  • The immigrants already settled in large colonies of one nationality cannot be redistributed, but they can be reached by other means, one of which is an efficient public-school system, which is dealt with in later chapters.

  • This, we maintain, is what our common-school system as now organized and controlled is doing.

  • But it does not follow that these grave evils are to be laid to the communism of the New England common-school system.

  • For more than half a century the public-school system in its existing form has been in full and energetic operation.

  • We have been so hotly engaged recently in discussing trade-schools and the higher education that the pitiable plight of the public-school system in the South has almost dropped from view.

  • The white teachers who flocked South went to establish such a common-school system.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    all such; being also; brief notice; complete circle; five miles; foreign prince; much difference; open letter; political ideas; school again; school boards; school children; school class; school education; school girl; school library; school superintendent; school teachers; school together; schools were; seventy guns; tablespoonful butter; transmitted through; wagon train; when they were alone; would suffer