Studies in PedagogySilver, Burdette, 1888 - 355 pages |
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acquired activity arithmetic attainments awaken beautiful become Brown University calls into exercise character child color Comenius culture discipline duties elements ence energy examination experience EZEKIEL GILMAN ROBINSON facts faculties familiar feeling forces FRIEDRICH FROEBEL give grades grammar habit heart high school highest ideal schoolmaster ideas imagination important instruction intellectual intelligent JOHN LOCKE knowledge labor language largely laws learning lessons life's LL.D logic matter means memory ment mental powers method of teaching metric system mind moral nature Newton Theological Institution NOAH PORTER normal school objects observation philosophy philosophy of education Plato pleasure possible practical principles professional public schools pupil questions reading reason recitation schoolroom seeks sense simply SIR WILLIAM HAMILTON skill spirit square root student STUDIES IN PEDAGOGY taught teacher things thought tion true truth universe wise words
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Page 311 - Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's, Thy God's, and truth's; then if thou fall'st, O Cromwell, Thou fall'st a blessed martyr!
Page 148 - I were to pray for a taste which should stand me in stead under every variety of circumstances, and be a source of happiness and cheerfulness to me through life, and a shield against its ills, however things might go amiss and the world frown upon me, it would be a taste for reading.
Page 242 - 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 86 - I am not here speaking against Greek and Latin : I think they ought to be studied, and the Latin, at least, understood well by every gentleman. But whatever foreign languages a young man meddles with (and the more he knows the better), that which he should critically study, and labour to get a facility, clearness, and elegancy to express himself in, should be his own, and to this purpose he should daily be exercised in it.] 190.1 Natural Philosophy.
Page 311 - tis better to be lowly born, And range with humble livers in content, Than to be perk'd up in a glist'ring grief, And wear a golden sorrow.
Page 253 - The riches of the commonwealth Are free, strong minds, and hearts of health ; And more to her than gold or grain, The cunning hand and cultured brain.
Page 54 - Did the Almighty," says Lessing, " holding in his right hand Truth, and in his left Search after Truth, deign to tender me the one I might prefer, — in all humility, but without hesitation, I should request Search after Truth.
Page 259 - ... conception of the completed work in all its extent, proportions and details, for nothing is so complex as the human organism ; he needs the nicest discrimination between the true and the false, the good and the bad, the beautiful and the deformed, since nowhere else...
Page 195 - ... might be able to transfer it to other parts of knowledge, as they shall have occasion. For, in all sorts of reasoning, every single argument should be managed as a mathematical demonstration: the connexion and dependence of ideas should be followed, till the mind is brought to the source on which it bottoms, and observes the coherence all along, though in proofs of probability one such train is not enough to settle the judgment, as in demonstrative knowledge.
Page 242 - The village master taught his little school: A man severe he was, and stern to view, I knew him well, and every truant knew; Well had the boding tremblers learned to trace The day's disasters in his morning face; Full well they laughed with counterfeited glee At all his jokes, for many a joke had he...