Report of the State School Commissioner of Georgia to the General Assembly

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Department of Education, 1910 - Education
 

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Page 105 - We may live without poetry, music, and art ; We may live without conscience, and live without heart ; We may live without friends ; we may live without books ; But civilized man cannot live without cooks. He may live without books, — what is knowledge but grieving ? He may live without hope, — what is hope but deceiving ? He may live without love, — what is passion but pining ? But where is the man that can live without dining ? XX.
Page 216 - It should therefore be among the first objects of those who wish well to the national prosperity, to encourage and support the principles of religion and morality, and early to place the youth under the forming hand of society, that by instruction they may be moulded to the love of virtue and good order.
Page 104 - There is a lesson in each flower, A story in each stream and bower ; On every herb on which you tread Are written words which, rightly read, Will lead you from earth's fragrant sod To hope, and holiness, and God.
Page 280 - A unit represents a year's study in any subject in a secondary school, constituting approximately a quarter of a full year's work.
Page 280 - ... is from forty to sixty minutes in length, and that the study is pursued for four or five periods a week ; but under ordinary circumstances, a satisfactory year's work in any subject cannot be accomplished in less than one hundred and twenty sixty-minute hours or their equivalent. Schools organized on any other than a four-year basis can, nevertheless, estimate their work in terms of this unit.* * College Entrance Examination Board, Document No.
Page 238 - ... by a systematic education in the higher branches of learning. 5. To be skillful and expert in those domestic arts that lie at the foundation of all successful housekeeping and homemaking.
Page 534 - Atkinson, Bacon, Baker, Baldwin, Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Ben Hill, Berrien, Bibb, Bleckley, Brantley, Brooks, Bryan, Bulloch, Burke, Butts, Calhoun, Camden, Candler, Carroll, Catoosa, Charlton. Chatham, Chattahoochee, Chattooga, Cherokee, Clarke, Clay, Clayton, Clinch, Cobb, Coffee, Colquitt, Columbia, Cook, Coweta, Crawford, Crisp, Dade, Dawson, Decatur...
Page 249 - The most extensive co-operation has been with the Bureau of Plant Industry of the US Department of Agriculture.
Page 133 - In compliance with the requirements of law, I have the honor to submit to...
Page 39 - Georgia Day," as the anniversary of the landing of the first colonists in Georgia under Oglethorpe; and it shall be the duty of the State School Commissioner through the County School Commissioners, annually to cause the teachers of the schools under their supervision to conduct on that day exercises in which the pupils shall take part, consisting of written compositions, readings, recitations, addresses, or other exercises, relating to this State and its history and to the lives of distinguished...

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