School Life in Old Scotland, from Contemporary SourcesGeorge Pratt Insh Educational Institute of Scotland, 1925 - 109 pagina's |
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Populaire passages
Pagina 107 - And whereas it has been the custom in the public schools of Scotland to give instruction in religion to children whose parents did not object to the instruction so given, but with liberty to parents, without forfeiting any of the other advantages of the schools, to elect that their children should not receive such instruction, and it is expedient that the managers of public schools shall be at liberty to continue the said custom...
Pagina 107 - ... for children over two and under five years of age, or such later age as may be approved by the Board of Education, whose attendance at such a school is necessary' or desirable for their healthy physical and mental development ; and (b) attending to the health, nourishment, and physical % welfare of children attending nursery schools.
Pagina 94 - Chancery, or his depute or substitute ; and it shall not be necessary to have the seal appointed by the Treaty of Union to be kept and used in Scotland in place of the Great Seal thereof...
Pagina 107 - Schools (which expression shall include nursery classes) for children over two and under five years of age, or such later age as may be approved by the Board of Education, whose attendance at such a school is necessary or desirable for their healthy physical and mental development; and (b) Attending to the health, nourishment, and physical welfare of children attending Nursery Schools.
Pagina 88 - Parliament, statutes and ordains that there be a school settled and established and a schoolmaster appointed in every parish not already provided by advice of the heritors and minister of the parish...
Pagina 12 - In October 1787 I was sent to the High School. Having never been at a public school before, and this one being notorious for its severity and riotousness, I approached its walls with trembling, and felt dizzy when I sat down amidst above 100 new faces. We had been living at Leith, for sea-bathing, for some weeks before ; and I was taken to school by our tutor.
Pagina 13 - Never was a man more fortunate in the choice of a vocation. He was born to teach Latin, some Greek, and all virtue. In doing so he was generally patient, though not, when intolerably provoked, without due fits of gentle wrath; inspiring to his boys, especially the timid and backward ; enthusiastically delighted with every appearance of talent or goodness; a warm encourager by praise, play, and kindness; and constantly under the strongest sense of duty.
Pagina 89 - Parliament in the year one thousand six hundred and ninety, the vacant stipends within the said bounds are destined for the setting up and maintaining of schools in manner...
Pagina 14 - They had the barbarity," he says, "to make us be in school during summer at seven in the morning. I once started out of bed, thinking I was too late, and got out of the house unquestioned. On reaching the High School gate, I found it locked, and saw the yards through the bars silent and motionless. I withdrew alarmed, and went near the Trou Church to see the clock.
Pagina 13 - He had most of the usual peculiarities of a schoolmaster, but was so amiable and so artless that no sensible friend would have wished one of them to be even softened. His private industry was appalling. If one moment late at school, he would hurry in and explain that he had been detained " verifying a quotation ; " and many a one did he verify at four in the morning ' (CocKBinw, Memorials of his Time).