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X-Sender: redball@mail.mindspring.com To: H-NET/OIEAHC Electronic Association in Early American Studies <H-OIEAHC@H-NET.MSU.EDU> Delivered-to: H-OIEAHC@h-net.msu.edu Original-recipient: rfc822;john.saillant@vmh.cc.wmich.edu I'm passing along a query from a student. ========== I'm trying to track down the original source for a speech John Quincy Adams gave in Plymouth, MA, in 1838 at a convention of the Plymouth County Association for the Improvement of Common Schools. Speaking in favor of the establishment of a normal school, he said: We see monarchs expending vast sums, establishing normal schools thruout their realms, and sparing no pains to convey knowledge and efficiency to all the children of their poorest subjects. Shall we be outdone by kings? Shall monarchies steal a march on republics in the patronage of that education on which a republic is based? The meeting was arranged by Charles Brooks. Daniel Webster was also in attendance, arguing that "We teach too much by manuals. . . . we have too much of words, too little of things." My source is Charles Harper's 1940 "A Century of Teacher Education" (22-24). Great book , but it lacks a bibliography. Can anyone suggest where I might look for--or find--the originals? Thanks, David Gold dgold@mail.utexas.edu =========== -- Trish Roberts-Miller redball@mindspring.com "thinking as a free citizen does include these apparently incompatible requirements: forming and following one's own judgment, and yet listening to and respecting the opinions of one's fellow citizens" (H. Pitkin) http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~robertsmiller/homepage.html
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