Education
(Golder Project subject term)
Represented in
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England’s Hope in The New Zealand Survey
- Such spirit growing with his years, / And knowledge right increasing, / While preparations ’mongst his peers, / ’Mid studies good increasing, / For that great trust—his future lot, / The ruling such a nation;— / Such spirit well informed, I wot / Must fit the situation!
- When on the empire’s stool he’s raised, / Britannia’s sceptre swaying; / The prudence, then, of Sire be praised, / Who trained him to obeying! / Though hard to learn such lessons well, / (And much it needs good schooling) / Yet how the advantages will tell, / When he is set to ruling! / For best he rules, who best has learn’d / Obedience to his Maker; / Whose blessing on each honor earn’d / Rejoices such partaker!
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The Two Guides in The New Zealand Survey
- How true it is, that rising youth / Progressing needs a wise adviser; / One who is earnest for the truth, / And is no false or vain enticer. / But two attendants ready are, / And each against the other striving, / As each the youth would lead with care / In their own beaten paths, contriving / How to supplant each other:
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To a Mountain Daisy in The New Zealand Survey
- For He who cares for thee, sweet flower, / And paints thee with the choicest hue; / Can cherish all in hapless hour, / Who in Him trust, as shewn by you. / As on you shines the light of day, / That makes ye look with joyous smile; / So may His countenance alway / Shine on my soul, all glooms to foil! / How good from thee such lessons pure / To draw, that might dull ignorance teach, / Inspiring hopes, which bliss ensure, / More than dogmatic doctors preach!
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A Retrospective Reverie. — On receiving the “Hamilton Advertiser” a provincial newspaper, sent from “Home,” 1859 in The New Zealand Survey
- ’Twas here I once made my debut / As teacher in this little village, / Where first my energies were prized, / And many pleasures realized, / While being bent on mental tillage.
- And those soirees of Sunday Schools, / Detailed within this “Advertiser,” / While reading such, I feel as there, / And learn in happy smiles this pray’r, / “Oh! let the rising race grow wiser
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Signs of the Times in 1853 in The New Zealand Survey
- May we not yet be quite the dab / In all such lore, as th’ A B, AB / We soon shall master; and besides, / Whate’er on ev’ry hand betides, / From the examples of th’ adept, / If but we’re wide awake t’ accept / Such lessons freely given,—which / Might to our understandings reach / More easily, than what is taught / By precepts, howe’er much they’re fraught / With cunning erudition;—so, / However much accounted slow / In former progress, we may gain / A march upon our masters; fain / To shew ourselves no longer dunces, / Nor yet be subject to the bounces / Of the more pert,—or more impert’nent! / Than we’re by nature, though intent / To learn the right, and how discry / The evils to be shunn’d:—
- How long we’ve stood / In the A B C with pensive mood, / Unable quite to comprehend / Such mystic lore, nor yet its end, / Though master oft our ears would pinch, / Or hammer like his fist would clinch, / To clear our apprehensions dull,
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On Passing Two Ladies in Deep Mourning in The New Zealand Survey
- When pride adopts the garb of woe, / Such mournings seem mere empty show, / And grief as but a jest!
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Canto Fifth in The New Zealand Survey
- Convinced that self-reliance is a gem / Worth all the jewels in a monarch’s crown! / Your’s is the task of reformations great, / Although such may be hard to be perceived, / Not only on this land, but on your race, / While training them by good example, which / Says more than precept ever could enforce, / To industry and hardihood, which scorns / All idleness, and every want defies!
- Though much of their traditions in their kind / May bear comparison to what of old / Would Ovid tell, (1)—how things in present form / Had their existence by transforming spells; / Yet the untutored natives, more debased, / Knew not how advantageously to turn / Such ev’n to good instruction, in the guise / Of fiction’s elegance, with morals chaste! / But such in uncouth state have been conceived / As ’mid pollution, so produced unclean, / And told, while such have passed as current coin / Through generations, much transformed and patched / With fresh additions of unseemliness / And horrid shapes; while, upon which the minds / Of infancy were fed, and puerile thoughts / Were cherished, till such in their nature’s wove! / Thus superstition’s canker on them grown / Has gnawed into their souls! Thus prestine truths / Are made extinct, while falsehood bears the sway; / Wild superstition as with reptile’s coil / Have in the bonds of mystery wound their tail!
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Canto Fourth in The Philosophy of Love. [A Plea in Defence of Virtue and Truth!] A Poem in Six Cantos, with Other Poems
- Her parents fond felt even charm’d themselves / With her appearance; and fond hopes indulged. / That she might meet some lover of some note, / Above their sphere of life, though even that / Was of no humble grade; as fit were they / To give her education meet t’adorn / That sphere of life, they hoped she might attain— / Even the best a boarding school could give! / Yet, all the education she received / Could not put prudence in her pride-full heart;
- Such a fair pourtrait of gay Helen’s mind; / And such the cultivation it received; / Such, the foundation laid, on which to rear / The simple structure of her after-life!
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Canto Second in The Philosophy of Love. [A Plea in Defence of Virtue and Truth!] A Poem in Six Cantos, with Other Poems
- On looking through the history of life, / We see the wisdom of God’s providence; / In making man the being that he is;
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Other Collections
The following collections may have holdings relevant to "Education":
- Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, which has entries for many prominent New Zealanders.
- Archives New Zealand, which has collections of maps, plans and posters; immigration passenger lists; and probate records.
- National Library of New Zealand, which has extensive collections of published material.
- Auckland War Memorial Museum, which has extensive holdings on the Auckland region and New Zealand military history.
- Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, which has strong holdings in Tāonga Māori, biological holotypes and New Zealand art.
- nzhistory.net.nz, from the History Group of the Ministry for Culture and Heritage.