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... better kind of rivalry was cultivated by means of " Academies , " i . e . , voluntary associations for study , which met together , under the superintendence of a master , to read themes , transla- tions , etc. , and to discuss passages ...
... better kind of rivalry was cultivated by means of " Academies , " i . e . , voluntary associations for study , which met together , under the superintendence of a master , to read themes , transla- tions , etc. , and to discuss passages ...
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... better . Thus the child will easily acquire a knowledge of grammar , and also the ground of almost all the rules that are so busily taught by the master , and so hardly learned by the scholar in all common schools . " " We do not ...
... better . Thus the child will easily acquire a knowledge of grammar , and also the ground of almost all the rules that are so busily taught by the master , and so hardly learned by the scholar in all common schools . " " We do not ...
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... better on away , first , with understanding his lesson more quickly , with parsing more readily , with translating more speedily and perfectly than he was wont ; after , give him longer lessons to translate , and , withal , begin to ...
... better on away , first , with understanding his lesson more quickly , with parsing more readily , with translating more speedily and perfectly than he was wont ; after , give him longer lessons to translate , and , withal , begin to ...
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... better knowledge in the Latin tongue than the most part do that spend from five to six years in tossing all the rules of grammar in common schools . " After quoting the instance of Dion Prussæus , who came to great learning and ...
... better knowledge in the Latin tongue than the most part do that spend from five to six years in tossing all the rules of grammar in common schools . " After quoting the instance of Dion Prussæus , who came to great learning and ...
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... better still , as the natural system suits best with science , which is the study of nature . " Influenced by this Report , the town of Augsburg in 1614 summoned Ratich to reform their schools . Here the innovator found , to his cost ...
... better still , as the natural system suits best with science , which is the study of nature . " Influenced by this Report , the town of Augsburg in 1614 summoned Ratich to reform their schools . Here the innovator found , to his cost ...
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Page 299 - Whether we provide for action or conversation, whether we wish to be useful or pleasing, the first requisite is the religious and moral knowledge of right and wrong ; the next is an acquaintance with the history of mankind, and with those examples which may be said to embody truth, and prove by events the reasonableness of opinions. Prudence and justice are virtues and excellences of all times and of all places ; we are perpetually moralists, but we are geometricians only by chance.
Page 71 - there is nothing in the mind that was not first in the senses...
Page 227 - In what way to treat the body; in what way to treat the mind; in what way to manage our affairs; in what way to bring up a family; in what way to behave as a citizen; in what way to utilize all those sources of happiness which nature supplies— how to use all our faculties to the greatest advantage of ourselves and others— how to live completely?
Page 297 - The end then of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him, as we may the nearest by possessing our souls of true virtue, which, being united to the heavenly grace of faith, makes up the highest perfection.
Page 89 - As the strength of the body lies chiefly in being able to endure hardships, so also does that of the mind.
Page 83 - But till you can find a school, wherein it is possible for the master to look after the manners of his scholars, and can show as great effects of his care of forming their minds to virtue, and their carriage to good breeding, as of forming their tongues to the learned languages ; you must confess, that you have a strange value for words, when, preferring the languages of the ancient Greeks and Romans to that which made them such brave men, you think it worth while to hazard your son's innocence and...
Page 247 - The education of the child must accord both in mode and arrangement with the education of mankind as considered historically; or in other words, the genesis of knowledge in the individual must follow the same course as the genesis of knowledge in the race.
Page 299 - Prudence and justice are virtues and excellences of all times and of all places ; we are perpetually moralists, but we are geometricians only by chance. Our intercourse with intellectual nature is necessary ; our speculations upon matter are voluntary and at leisure.
Page 227 - To prepare us for complete living is the function which education has to discharge ; and the only rational mode of judging of any educational course is, to judge in what degree it discharges such function.
Page 97 - ... to give him some little taste of what his own industry must perfect. For who expects that under a tutor a young gentleman should be an accomplished critic, orator, or logician; go to the bottom of metaphysics, natural philosophy or mathematics, or be a master in history or chronology? though something of each of these is to be taught him ; but it is only to open the door, that he may look in, and as it were begin an acquaintance, but not to dwell there...