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... look at their extent , or at the necessity of securing assistants , or at the expenses generally . " At Leszno there seemed no prospect of his obtaining the aid he required ; but his fame now procured him invitations from distant ...
... look at their extent , or at the necessity of securing assistants , or at the expenses generally . " At Leszno there seemed no prospect of his obtaining the aid he required ; but his fame now procured him invitations from distant ...
Page 69
... look to the known pro- cesses of Nature and Art . A man sows seed , and it comes up he knows not how , but in sowing it he must attend to the requirements of Nature . Let us then look to Nature to find out how instruction is to be sown ...
... look to the known pro- cesses of Nature and Art . A man sows seed , and it comes up he knows not how , but in sowing it he must attend to the requirements of Nature . Let us then look to Nature to find out how instruction is to be sown ...
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... look at . ( 3 ) The school buildings must be light , airy , and cheerful , and well furnished with apparatus , as pictures , maps , models , collections of speci- mens . ( 4 ) The subjects taught must not be too hard for the learner's ...
... look at . ( 3 ) The school buildings must be light , airy , and cheerful , and well furnished with apparatus , as pictures , maps , models , collections of speci- mens . ( 4 ) The subjects taught must not be too hard for the learner's ...
Page 83
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
Page 87
... look to them for a justification of laissez faire [ let alone ] . But writers on education , on dietetics , and the like , in their great zeal against laissez faire , gen- erally run in into the opposite extreme , and talk as if narrow ...
... look to them for a justification of laissez faire [ let alone ] . But writers on education , on dietetics , and the like , in their great zeal against laissez faire , gen- erally run in into the opposite extreme , and talk as if narrow ...
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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...