Wisconsin Journal of Education, Volume 9The Association, 1864 |
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... live and act accordingly . What then is the reason that the majority of children are spoiled during their first years of life , and why do they come , as experience shows , already more or less morally crippled into the hands of the ...
... live and act accordingly . What then is the reason that the majority of children are spoiled during their first years of life , and why do they come , as experience shows , already more or less morally crippled into the hands of the ...
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... lives without any consciousness in the first period of his existence , because the activity of the brain , which is the result of impressions upon our senses , is not yet properly excited . All of its motions are merely automatic ...
... lives without any consciousness in the first period of his existence , because the activity of the brain , which is the result of impressions upon our senses , is not yet properly excited . All of its motions are merely automatic ...
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... lives were sacrificed - and all because one brick had been laid wrong at the start . The workman who carelessly laid that brick wrong little thought what a dangerous thing he was doing , and what terrible harm would result from his ...
... lives were sacrificed - and all because one brick had been laid wrong at the start . The workman who carelessly laid that brick wrong little thought what a dangerous thing he was doing , and what terrible harm would result from his ...
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... live I'll not forget The truth I've learned to day . " " Your words have done no harm , " he cried ; " The germ you know were lost , If God , to help it break the shell , Did not send down a frost . The barrier so strong and firm ...
... live I'll not forget The truth I've learned to day . " " Your words have done no harm , " he cried ; " The germ you know were lost , If God , to help it break the shell , Did not send down a frost . The barrier so strong and firm ...
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... live to battle against ignorance , to dissemminate truth and elevate the standard of education in the State . It will require time , and no small effort , not only by the editor but by all the friends of the cause , to enable it to ...
... live to battle against ignorance , to dissemminate truth and elevate the standard of education in the State . It will require time , and no small effort , not only by the editor but by all the friends of the cause , to enable it to ...
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Page 52 - O'er wayward childhood would'st thou hold firm rule, And sun thee in the light of happy faces ; Love, Hope, and Patience, these must be thy graces, And in thine own heart let them first keep school.
Page 18 - He liveth long who liveth well ! All else is being flung away ; He liveth longest who can tell Of true things truly done each day.
Page 2 - ... clear manner. And not only is it that the existence of any such standard has not been clearly conceived, but the need for it seems to have been scarcely even felt. Men read books on this topic, and attend lectures on that; decide that their children shall be instructed in these branches of knowledge, and shall not be instructed in those; and all under the guidance of mere custom, or liking, or prejudice, without ever considering the enormous importance of determining in some rational way what...
Page 4 - ... life which materially influences all other periods. To go through the grammar of one language thoroughly is of great use for the mastery of every other grammar ; because there obtains, through all languages, a certain analogy to each other in their grammatical construction.
Page 3 - he said, "seems to me as if it was given for the very purpose of forming the human mind in youth ; and the Greek and Latin languages seem the very instruments by which this is to be effected.
Page 113 - ... vitally important knowledge, sacrificed to it. Supposing it true that classical education conduces to elegance and correctness of style ; it cannot be said that elegance and correctness of style are comparable in importance to a familiarity with the principles that should guide the rearing of children. Grant...
Page 52 - The straightened arms upraised, the palms aslope, And robes that, touching as adown they flow, Distinctly blend, like snow embossed in snow. O part them never ! If Hope prostrate lie, Love too will sink and die. But Love is subtle, and doth proof derive From her own life...
Page 5 - Before the revival of classic literature, the Barbarians in Europe were immersed in ignorance ; and their vulgar tongues were marked with the rudeness and poverty of their manners. The students of the more perfect idioms of Rome and Greece...
Page 4 - ... languages of Europe : their mode of signifying time and case, by terminations, instead of auxiliary verbs and particles, would of itself stamp their superiority. Add to this, the copiousness of the Greek language, with the fancy, majesty, and harmony of its compounds ; and there are quite sufficient reasons why the classics should be studied for the beauties of language. Compared to them, merely as vehicles of thought and passion, all modern languages are dull, ill contrived, and barbarous.
Page 6 - I do but echo the universal opinion of all persons competent to pronounce on the subject, in expressing my own conviction that the language and literature of ancient Greece constitute the most efficient instrument of mental training ever enjoyed by man ; and that a familiarity with that wonderful speech, its poetry, its philosophy, its eloquence, and the history it embalms, is incomparably the most valuable of intellectual possessions.