Pioneers of the Kindergarten in AmericaCentury Company, 1924 - 298 pages |
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Page 161 - THE longer on this earth we live And weigh the various qualities of men, Seeing how most are fugitive, Or fitful gifts, at best, of now and then, Wind-wavered corpse-lights, daughters of the fen, The more we feel the high stern-featured beauty Of plain devotedness to duty, Steadfast and still, nor paid with mortal praise, But finding amplest recompense For life's ungarlanded expense In work done squarely and unwasted days.
Page 281 - Then they that feared the Lord spake often one to another: and the Lord hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the Lord, and that thought upon his name.
Page 150 - ONE lesson, Nature, let me learn of thee, One lesson which in every wind is blown, One lesson of two duties kept at one Though the loud world proclaim their enmity— Of toil unsever'd from tranquillity ! Of labour, that in lasting fruit outgrows Far noisier schemes, accomplish'd in repose, Too great for haste, too high for rivalry...
Page 179 - But for those first affections, Those shadowy recollections, Which, be they what they may, Are yet the fountain light of all our day, Are yet a master light of all our seeing...
Page 42 - Let me, therefore, indulge in the hope, that, among the illustrious youths whom this ancient kingdom, famed alike for its nobility and its learning, has produced, to continue her fame through after ages, possibly among those I now address, there may be found some one — I ask no more — willing to give a bright example to other nations in a path yet untrodden, by taking the lead of his...
Page 172 - The kindergarten does well when it teaches the gifts and occupations, for it deals with the world of means and instrumentalities, and helps the child to the conquest of nature. It does better with the plays and games, because these are thoroughly humane in their nature, and they offer to the child in a symbolic form the treasures of experience of the race in solving the problems of life.
Page 42 - ... most worthy of our rational nature, coupled with the diffusion of knowledge, and gratefully pronounced through all ages by millions whom his wise beneficence has rescued from ignorance and vice.
Page 71 - No one can ever write about American or European educational affairs from 1820 to 1875 without drawing most of his information and inspiration from the writings of Henry Barnard. He had all the instincts of the scientist, the patience of a historian, the poise of a statesman, and the zeal of a reformer.
Page 23 - She literally gave herself to the cause, for she received, if anything, the most meager compensation for what she did; if her traveling expenses were paid she was more than satisfied, thinking nothing of her own great personal sacrifices; and as she saw the gradual triumph of the better way, and others making easier conquests, she rejoiced simply and fervently.
Page 42 - ... not in frivolous amusements, nor in the degrading pursuits of the ambitious vulgar, — but in the truly noble task of enlightening the mass of his countrymen, and of leaving his own name no longer encircled, as heretofore, with barbaric...