American Annals of Education, Հատոր 9Otis, Broaders and Company, 1839 |
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... duties of their profes- sion . We learn also , from the twenty first report of the same Society , that , for several years past the number of benefi- ciaries who have been aided , has been increased on an aver- age of nearly 100 ...
... duties of their profes- sion . We learn also , from the twenty first report of the same Society , that , for several years past the number of benefi- ciaries who have been aided , has been increased on an aver- age of nearly 100 ...
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... duty of those who educate for the gospel ministry to educate the body , as effectually as the mind and soul . Why is it that our young men should have their constitution of body so effectually ruined by the time they get through their ...
... duty of those who educate for the gospel ministry to educate the body , as effectually as the mind and soul . Why is it that our young men should have their constitution of body so effectually ruined by the time they get through their ...
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... duty which requires more careful atten- tion than the course he pursues in respect to these two classes among his scholars , so as to avoid the danger of fostering self conceit and vanity in the one , and sinking the other into hopeless ...
... duty which requires more careful atten- tion than the course he pursues in respect to these two classes among his scholars , so as to avoid the danger of fostering self conceit and vanity in the one , and sinking the other into hopeless ...
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... duty by rebukes and punishment , and he only grows more reckless and more hardened . At length , in some moment of despair , he con- cludes to try a different system . He tries to find something or other to praise , -and watching his ...
... duty by rebukes and punishment , and he only grows more reckless and more hardened . At length , in some moment of despair , he con- cludes to try a different system . He tries to find something or other to praise , -and watching his ...
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... duty , and of moral action , which like the air and light we well know , but think not of , -if to have found life in virtue and being in truth- if to look through the material elements which enshroud our daily life , and to find its ...
... duty , and of moral action , which like the air and light we well know , but think not of , -if to have found life in virtue and being in truth- if to look through the material elements which enshroud our daily life , and to find its ...
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Էջ 246 - The end then of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him, as we may the nearest by possessing our souls of true virtue, which being united to the heavenly grace of faith, makes up the highest perfection...
Էջ 248 - I call therefore a complete and generous education that which fits a man to perform justly, skillfully, and magnanimously all the offices both private and public of peace and war.
Էջ 246 - And though a linguist should pride himself to have all the tongues that Babel cleft the world into, yet if he have not studied the solid things in them as well as the words and lexicons, he were nothing so much to be esteemed a learned man, as any yeoman or tradesman competently wise in his mother dialect only.
Էջ 228 - Committee, for the consideration of all matters affecting the Education of the People. For the present it is thought advisable that this Board should consist of: The Lord President of the Council. The Lord Privy Seal. The Chancellor of the Exchequer. The Secretary of State for the Home Department, and The Master of the Mint.
Էջ 39 - It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds, and these invaluable means of communication are in the reach of all. In the best books great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours.
Էջ 39 - Shakespeare to open to me the worlds of imagination and the workings of the human heart, and Franklin to enrich me with his practical wisdom, I shall not pine for want of intellectual companionship, and I may become a cultivated man though excluded from what is called the best society in the place where I live.
Էջ 247 - Hence appear the many mistakes which have made learning generally so unpleasing and so unsuccessful ; first, we do amiss to spend seven or eight years merely in scraping together so much miserable Latin and Greek, as might be learned otherwise easily and delightfully in one year.
Էջ 169 - That the selectmen of every town in the several precincts and quarters where they dwell, shall have a vigilant eye over their brethren and neighbors, to see, first, that none of them shall suffer so much barbarism in any of their families, as not to endeavor to teach by themselves or others, their children and apprentices so much learning, as may enable them perfectly to read the English tongue, and knowledge of the capital laws, upon penalty of twenty shillings for each neglect therein...
Էջ 251 - ... save an army by this frugal and expenseless means only ; and not let the healthy and stout bodies of young men rot away under him for want of this discipline ; which is a great pity, and no less a shame to the commander.
Էջ 253 - ... what the laws are of a true epic poem, what of a dramatic, what of a lyric, what decorum is, which is the grand masterpiece to observe.