The American Journal of Education, Volume 23Henry Barnard F.C. Brownell, 1872 - Education |
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... things had names , he wished to hear the name of every thing supposing that there could be nothing , which his father did not know , he often teased him with his questions , and caused him to inquire con- cerning objects , which but for ...
... things had names , he wished to hear the name of every thing supposing that there could be nothing , which his father did not know , he often teased him with his questions , and caused him to inquire con- cerning objects , which but for ...
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... things by every method in his power . For no man can bear to be entirely deprived of such enjoyments : it is only because they are not used to taste of what is excellent , that the generality of people take delight in silly and insipid ...
... things by every method in his power . For no man can bear to be entirely deprived of such enjoyments : it is only because they are not used to taste of what is excellent , that the generality of people take delight in silly and insipid ...
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... things laid before them without being con- cerned from whence they are taken . I shall reduce to twelve or thirteen articles the general instructions which relate to the education of youth . 1. THE END TO BE AIMED AT IN EDUCATION . To ...
... things laid before them without being con- cerned from whence they are taken . I shall reduce to twelve or thirteen articles the general instructions which relate to the education of youth . 1. THE END TO BE AIMED AT IN EDUCATION . To ...
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... things which are indifferent of themselves , and only become correc- tions by the idea that is fixed to them . I know a school of poor chil- dren , where one of the greatest and most sensible punishments that is inflicted upon such as ...
... things which are indifferent of themselves , and only become correc- tions by the idea that is fixed to them . I know a school of poor chil- dren , where one of the greatest and most sensible punishments that is inflicted upon such as ...
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... things you require of them agreeable to the children . Have you anything displeasing to propose to them ? Let them know that the pain will soon be followed by a pleasure ; show them always the usefulness of what you teach them ; let ...
... things you require of them agreeable to the children . Have you anything displeasing to propose to them ? Let them know that the pain will soon be followed by a pleasure ; show them always the usefulness of what you teach them ; let ...
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Page 103 - ... and some few to be chewed and digested ; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read but not curiously ; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention. Some books also may be read by deputy, and extracts made of them by others ; but that would be only in the less important arguments and the meaner sort of books; else distilled books are, like common distilled waters, flashy things.
Page 205 - ... books are not absolutely dead things but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.
Page 31 - Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him (xxii.
Page 279 - Who, doomed to go in company with Pain, And Fear, and Bloodshed, miserable train ! Turns his necessity to glorious gain...
Page 250 - If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be/ as Poor Richard says, ' the greatest prodigality ; ' since, as he elsewhere tells us, ' Lost time is never found again ; and what we call time enough, always proves little enough.
Page 236 - LAERTES' head. And these few precepts in thy memory Look thou character. Give thy thoughts no tongue, Nor any unproportioned thought his act. Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar. The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hooks of steel; But do not dull thy palm with entertainment Of each new-hatched, unfledged comrade.
Page 103 - STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight, is in privateness and retiring ; for ornament, is in discourse ; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business. For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one ; but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs, come best from those that are learned.
Page 286 - To make the weight for the winds ; And he weigheth the waters by measure. When he made a decree for the rain, And a way for the lightning of the thunder : Then did he see it, and declare it ; He prepared it, yea, and searched it out.
Page 236 - But do not dull thy palm with entertainment Of each new-hatched, unfledged comrade. Beware Of entrance to a quarrel ; but, being in, Bear it that the opposer may beware of thee. Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice ; Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment.
Page 254 - Experience keeps a dear School, but Fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that; for it is true, we may give Advice, but we cannot give Conduct...