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THOUGHTS
ON
EDUCATIONAL TOPICS
AND
INSTITUTIONS.
BY
GEORGE S. BOUTWELL.
BOSTON: PHILLIPS, SAMPSON AND COMPANY. MDCCCLIX.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1859, by GEORGE S. BOUTWELL, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.
STEREOTYPED BY HOBART AND ROBBINS, BOSTON.
To
THE TEACHERS OF MASSACHUSETTS,
WHOSE ENLIGHTENED DEVOTION TO THEIR DUTIES HAS CONTRIBUTED EFFECTUALLY TO THE ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING, This Volume IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED.
G. S. B.
CONTENTS.
THE INTRINSIC NATURE AND VALUE OF LEARNING, AND ITS INFLUENCE UPON LABOR.
[Lecture before the American Institute of Instruction.]
EDUCATION AND CRIME.
[Extract from the Twenty-First Annual Report of the Secretary of the Massachusetts Board of Education.]
FOOTNOTES:
REFORMATION OF CHILDREN.
[Address at the Inauguration of William E. Starr, Superintendent of the State Reform School at Westborough.]
THE CARE AND REFORMATION OF THE NEGLECTED AND EXPOSED CLASSES OF CHILDREN.
[An Address delivered at the opening of the State Industrial School for Girls, at Lancaster, Massachusetts.]
ELEMENTARY TRAINING IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
[Extract from the Twenty-Second Annual Report of the Secretary of the Massachusetts Board of Education.]
THE RELATIVE MERITS OF PUBLIC HIGH SCHOOLS AND ENDOWED ACADEMIES.
[Remarks before the American Institute of Instruction, at Manchester, N. H.]
THE HIGH SCHOOL SYSTEM.
[An Address delivered at the Dedication of the Powers Institute, Bernardston.]
NORMAL SCHOOL TRAINING.
[An Address delivered at the Dedication of the State Normal School, at Salem.]
FEMALE EDUCATION.
[An Address before the Newburyport Female High School.]
THE INFLUENCE, DUTIES, AND REWARDS, OF TEACHERS.
[A Lecture delivered at Teachers' Institutes.]
LIBERTY AND LEARNING.
[An Address delivered at Montague, July 4th, 1857.]
FOOTNOTE:
MASSACHUSETTS SCHOOL FUND.
[Extract from the Twenty-Second Annual Report of the Secretary of the Board of Education.]
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FOOTNOTES:
A SYSTEM OF AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION.
[An Address before the Barnstable Agricultural Society, Oct. 8, 1857.]
FOOTNOTE:
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