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... soon seized on education as a stepping - stone to power and influence ; and with their talent for organization , they framed a system of schools which drove all important competitors from the field , and made the Jesuits the instructors ...
... soon seized on education as a stepping - stone to power and influence ; and with their talent for organization , they framed a system of schools which drove all important competitors from the field , and made the Jesuits the instructors ...
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... soon love his teaching . Let him , therefore , show an interest in everything that concerns them and not merely in their studies . Let him rejoice with those that rejoice , and not disdain to weep with those that weep . After the ...
... soon love his teaching . Let him , therefore , show an interest in everything that concerns them and not merely in their studies . Let him rejoice with those that rejoice , and not disdain to weep with those that weep . After the ...
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... in his Elementarie , how soon the advantage of study- ing the mother - tongue and rejecting the dominion of Latin was advocated in this country . words ; 2d , that knowledge should be communicated , III The Innovators.
... in his Elementarie , how soon the advantage of study- ing the mother - tongue and rejecting the dominion of Latin was advocated in this country . words ; 2d , that knowledge should be communicated , III The Innovators.
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... soon in disorder . Instead of introducing the uniform religion , he offended the Calvanistic Kötheners by his uncompromising Lutheranism . And his success was by no means such as to defy hostile criticism . His enemies soon declared the ...
... soon in disorder . Instead of introducing the uniform religion , he offended the Calvanistic Kötheners by his uncompromising Lutheranism . And his success was by no means such as to defy hostile criticism . His enemies soon declared the ...
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... soon felt the effects of the Battle of Prague , being in the following year ( 1621 ) taken and plundered by the Spaniards . On this occasion , Comenius lost almost everything he possessed . The year after his wife died , and then his ...
... soon felt the effects of the Battle of Prague , being in the following year ( 1621 ) taken and plundered by the Spaniards . On this occasion , Comenius lost almost everything he possessed . The year after his wife died , and then his ...
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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...