The Massachusetts Teacher and Journal of Home and School Education, Volume 26Samuel Coolidge for the Massachusetts Teachers' Association, 1873 |
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... Instruction 257 Philosophy and Religion 262 American Children • 208 Education a Mastery over Time 288 An Educated Brain 202 Grammar Misapplied . 331 Ayuke at School . III Teaching Boys Self - Control 415 An Experiment 237 Barren ...
... Instruction 257 Philosophy and Religion 262 American Children • 208 Education a Mastery over Time 288 An Educated Brain 202 Grammar Misapplied . 331 Ayuke at School . III Teaching Boys Self - Control 415 An Experiment 237 Barren ...
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- course of study in the several grades ; and improved methods of instruction , are questions that excite an interest coextensive with education itself , and should be discussed , not only by theo- rists , but by practical teachers . We ...
- course of study in the several grades ; and improved methods of instruction , are questions that excite an interest coextensive with education itself , and should be discussed , not only by theo- rists , but by practical teachers . We ...
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... instruction in the English language , to which instruction as much as to Latin be- longs the credit . After all , is it not more reasonable , if we seek to learn pure English idiom , to go where it is rather than where it is not ? Of ...
... instruction in the English language , to which instruction as much as to Latin be- longs the credit . After all , is it not more reasonable , if we seek to learn pure English idiom , to go where it is rather than where it is not ? Of ...
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... instruction . Children should be taught to read well by never allowing them to read badly ; and we are not sure that the reading in our best primary schools is not better than that of our grammar and high schools . If so , it is ...
... instruction . Children should be taught to read well by never allowing them to read badly ; and we are not sure that the reading in our best primary schools is not better than that of our grammar and high schools . If so , it is ...
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... instruction of schools , and will be found of special value to young teachers . A concise history of the origin and growth of the Free School System is also given . It has received the indorse- ment of many of the most prominent ...
... instruction of schools , and will be found of special value to young teachers . A concise history of the origin and growth of the Free School System is also given . It has received the indorse- ment of many of the most prominent ...
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Page 99 - But here the main skill and groundwork will be to temper them such lectures and explanations upon every opportunity, as may lead and draw them in willing obedience, inflamed with the study of learning and the admiration of virtue, stirred up with high hopes of living to be brave men and worthy patriots, dear to God and famous to all ages...
Page 99 - That they may despise and scorn all their childish and ill-taught qualities, to delight in manly and liberal exercises, which he who hath the art and proper eloquence to catch them with, what with mild and effectual persuasions, and what with the intimation of some fear, if need be, but chiefly by his own example, might in a short space gain them to an incredible diligence and courage, infusing into their young breasts such an ingenuous and noble ardor, as would not fail to make many of them renowned...
Page 298 - ... or that such child has been otherwise furnished with the means of education for a like period of time...
Page 134 - There is not a single view of human nature, which is not sufficient to extinguish the seeds of pride.
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Page 150 - They are to be delivered out from the lips, as beautiful coins newly issued from the mint, deeply and accurately impressed, perfectly finished, neatly struck by the proper organs, distinct, sharp, in due succession, and of due weight.
Page 389 - Revised and edited, with a List of Foreign Words defined in English, and other additions, by BARNAS SEARS, DD, President of Brown University.
Page 386 - Indians' children were to be taught freely, and the charge to be by yearly contribution, either by voluntary allowance, or by rate of such as refused, etc., and this order was confirmed by the general court . . . Other towns did the like, providing maintenance by several means.
Page 73 - It is the play of Hamlet with the part of Hamlet left out. A flag which does not distinguish may be a very nice piece of bunting, it may be handsomely executed, tasteful, expressive, and a thousand other things, but it has no title at all to bear the name of flag.
Page 32 - Duns' disciples, and like draff called Scotists, the children of darkness, raged in every pulpit against Greek, Latin, and Hebrew; and what sorrow the schoolmasters, that taught the true Latin tongue, had with them; some beating the pulpit with their fists for madness and roaring out with open and foaming mouth, that if there were but one Terence or Virgil in the world, and that same in their sleeves, and a fire before them, they...