American Annals of Education, Հատոր 9 |
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Էջ 173
One more such help deserves to be noticed , as it is not always appreciated by
parents and teachers , in the training of the youthful mind , as it ought to be . I
refer to what I would call physical or muscular attention ; that expression of the ...
One more such help deserves to be noticed , as it is not always appreciated by
parents and teachers , in the training of the youthful mind , as it ought to be . I
refer to what I would call physical or muscular attention ; that expression of the ...
Էջ 174
Notice this sympathy between the mind and the body in a child , when there is
presented to his regard some new toy or book that , on certain conditions , he is
soon to call his own . See how quickly his muscles follow the movements of his ...
Notice this sympathy between the mind and the body in a child , when there is
presented to his regard some new toy or book that , on certain conditions , he is
soon to call his own . See how quickly his muscles follow the movements of his ...
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to all the other faculties of the mind . Let elementary grammars be selected , full ,
yet concise , expressed with all that logical accuracy for which the older works of
the kind were distinguished , giving results alone , instead of perplexing the ...
to all the other faculties of the mind . Let elementary grammars be selected , full ,
yet concise , expressed with all that logical accuracy for which the older works of
the kind were distinguished , giving results alone , instead of perplexing the ...
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... with ordinary minds , the results must be such as have been described , and
that with extraordinary minds , they may be ... cause of the confusion and
perplexity of those who have taken an opposite course , arises from the mind not
having ...
... with ordinary minds , the results must be such as have been described , and
that with extraordinary minds , they may be ... cause of the confusion and
perplexity of those who have taken an opposite course , arises from the mind not
having ...
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Those who have read the author ' s “ Poetry of Life , ” will expect to find in this
new work evidence of a cultivated mind , a refined taste , a sincere appreciation
of the beautiful , and a pure and loving heart . But they may not be prepared to
find ...
Those who have read the author ' s “ Poetry of Life , ” will expect to find in this
new work evidence of a cultivated mind , a refined taste , a sincere appreciation
of the beautiful , and a pure and loving heart . But they may not be prepared to
find ...
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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.