American Annals of Education, Հատոր 9 |
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Although written especially for young ladies , the author does not seem to think it
necessary to instruct them in the minutiæ of fashionable manners . She does not
teach them what sort of expression they must wear upon their faces , when they ...
Although written especially for young ladies , the author does not seem to think it
necessary to instruct them in the minutiæ of fashionable manners . She does not
teach them what sort of expression they must wear upon their faces , when they ...
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Thus , that the education of a normal school , essentially practical , may
completely succeed , the young candidate must possess nobleness and purity of
character in the highest possible degree , the love of the True and Beautiful , an
active ...
Thus , that the education of a normal school , essentially practical , may
completely succeed , the young candidate must possess nobleness and purity of
character in the highest possible degree , the love of the True and Beautiful , an
active ...
Էջ 419
The young men , before they are qualified by age to claim their rights as citizens ,
have their societies , their book - clubs , their political meeting , their resolutions ,
all of which are promulgated in the newspapers ; and very often the young men ...
The young men , before they are qualified by age to claim their rights as citizens ,
have their societies , their book - clubs , their political meeting , their resolutions ,
all of which are promulgated in the newspapers ; and very often the young men ...
Էջ 420
They attempt too much for so short a space of time . Two or three years are
usually the period which the young women remain at the establishments , or
colleges I may call them ( for in reality they are female colleges . ) In the
prospectus of the ...
They attempt too much for so short a space of time . Two or three years are
usually the period which the young women remain at the establishments , or
colleges I may call them ( for in reality they are female colleges . ) In the
prospectus of the ...
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There are several excellent institutions in Lexington : a theological seminary ,
one of the professors in which is a young English clergyman ( minister , also , of
the episcopal church here ) ; he seems a very interesting young man ; his branch
of ...
There are several excellent institutions in Lexington : a theological seminary ,
one of the professors in which is a young English clergyman ( minister , also , of
the episcopal church here ) ; he seems a very interesting young man ; his branch
of ...
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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.