| Education - 1864 - 348 pages
...few pages to the consideration of discipline. At the beginning is the statement, — "Having found what is best for the one end, we have by implication found what is best for the other." " The beautiful economy of Nature " proves this. The careful reader will utterly fail to see that mere... | |
| Henry Barnard - Education - 1863 - 898 pages
...they occupy the leisure pari of education. TBS KNOWLEDGE BBQUI81TI FOR PURPOSES OF IHSCII-MN K. 7. We may be quite sure that the acquirement of those...best fitted for strengthening the faculties. It would bo utterly contrary to the beautiful economy of Nature, if one kind of culture were needed for the... | |
| Henry Barnard - Education - 1863 - 904 pages
...occupy Hit leisure port of education. THE K MMVI.KI «,:•; REQUISITE FOR PURPOSES Of DISCIPLINE. 7. We may be quite sure that the acquirement of those classes of facts which are moat useful for regulating conduct, involves a mental exercise best fitted for strengthening the faculties.... | |
| Henry Barnard - Education - 1863 - 902 pages
...they occupy the leisure part of education. THE KNOWLEDGE REQUISITE FOR PURPOSES ОГ DISCIPLINE. 7. We may be quite sure that the acquirement of those classes of facta which are most useful for regulating conduct, involves a mental exercise best fitted for strengthening... | |
| United States. Bureau of Education - Education - 1891 - 760 pages
...recent years have given evidences of a departure from this position, and the Spencer i an doctrine "that the acquirement of those classes of facts which...exercise best fitted for strengthening the faculties," is now widely accepted as true so far as it relates to elementary study, both in its direct and inverse... | |
| University of Missouri - 1879 - 520 pages
...purposes of training for these activities. We may be quite sure, says the great philosopher, Spencer, that the acquirement of those classes of facts, which are most useful in the arts and practices of life, involves a mental exercise best fitting for life's activities. It... | |
| University of Missouri - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1879 - 522 pages
...purposes of training for these activities. We may be quite sure, says the great philosopher, Spencer, that the acquirement of those classes of facts, which are most useful in the arts and practices of life, involves a mental exercise best f1tting for life's activities. It... | |
| Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1880 - 894 pages
...what has the greatest degree of improving effect. Ou this point, we agree with a recent writer, that "we may be quite sure that the acquirement of those...classes of facts which are most useful for regulating the conduct, involves a mental exercise best fitted for strengthening the faculties." ff this is true,... | |
| Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1890 - 1372 pages
...greatest degree of improving effect. On this point, we agree with a recent writer, that " we may he quite sure that the acquirement of those classes of facts which are most useful for regulating the conduct, involves a mental exercise best fitted for strengthening the faculties." If this is true,... | |
| Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1897 - 920 pages
...what has the greatest degree of improving effect. On this point, we agree with a recent writer, that ' we may be quite sure that the acquirement of those...classes of facts which are most useful for regulating the conduct, involve^, a mental exercise l>est fitted for strengthening the faculties.' This has been... | |
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