This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897 edition. Excerpt: ... all, it seems to me, is the fact that they are here as school children. For education, a generous, well-directed education, is the best gift one generation can make unto the next. Manchester, s schools have ever been, and are now, her pride. Children, see to it that you take full advantage of the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897 edition. Excerpt: ... all, it seems to me, is the fact that they are here as school children. For education, a generous, well-directed education, is the best gift one generation can make unto the next. Manchester, s schools have ever been, and are now, her pride. Children, see to it that you take full advantage of the opportunities for learning which are given you. Your parents, fondest wish, your city's dearest hope is that in her schools you may grow up to be useful members of society; may learn to become honest and intelligent citizens of our great republic. Education is not a mere exercise of the memory; it is not simply the learning of a number of facts. There is something more than attaining ability to read and spell, to write and cipher. It means the fullest development of all our faculties and all our powers, physical and mental. Real education teaches us to think and to reason for ourselves; to exercise that divine quality which animates the human brain, and distinguishes us from the brute creation, and makes man master over nature. Education means work, constant and persevering. Its first great lesson is that industry is essential to success; that nothing on this earth, worth the having, can be had without it; that labor, whether of the hands or of the brain, is honorable. It recommends the practice of industry to all; it condemns idleness as one of the worst of vices. The truly educated man or woman is never ashamed of honest toil, is never afraid of hard work. Education leads us to the knowledge that, in this world, nothing exists without some cause; and teaches us to look for the causes of the things we see; and to realize that, under similar circumstances, like causes will produce like results. Thus we learn from the events of the past to reason...
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