American Journal of Education and College Review, Volume 22Office of American Journal of Education, 1871 - Education Vol. 17-24 include the circulars, reports and documents issued by the editor as commissioner of education (vol. 18 is the American year-book and register for 1869; v. 19, Special report on education in the District of Columbia). |
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... things . In general , it may be held for certain that there will hardly be any great progress in the unraveling and unlocking of the secrets of nature , except there be a full allowance for expenses about experiments ; whether they be ...
... things . In general , it may be held for certain that there will hardly be any great progress in the unraveling and unlocking of the secrets of nature , except there be a full allowance for expenses about experiments ; whether they be ...
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... things useful to be known , " and especially " the languages of those people who have been most industrious after wisdom , " but asserts that by better methods , a truly val- uable knowledge of the Greek and Latin tongues and ...
... things useful to be known , " and especially " the languages of those people who have been most industrious after wisdom , " but asserts that by better methods , a truly val- uable knowledge of the Greek and Latin tongues and ...
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... things ] exercises of industry not usual then in common schools , and the methods of Comenius and Ratich ( whose " Didactics , " " Janua , " and " Orbis Pictus , " he had caused to be translated and printed ) , were introduced , and his ...
... things ] exercises of industry not usual then in common schools , and the methods of Comenius and Ratich ( whose " Didactics , " " Janua , " and " Orbis Pictus , " he had caused to be translated and printed ) , were introduced , and his ...
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... things , the Society of Arts set itself at work , and , in March , 1754 , after noting " that Drawing is absolutely necessary in many em- ployments , trades and manufactures , and the encouragement thereof may prove of great utility to ...
... things , the Society of Arts set itself at work , and , in March , 1754 , after noting " that Drawing is absolutely necessary in many em- ployments , trades and manufactures , and the encouragement thereof may prove of great utility to ...
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... things which must either be done by some central authority or would otherwise be left undone . The argument is still held , but with less pertinacity than heretofore - the world becoming gradually more anxious to get at the great result ...
... things which must either be done by some central authority or would otherwise be left undone . The argument is still held , but with less pertinacity than heretofore - the world becoming gradually more anxious to get at the great result ...
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Page 182 - And though a linguist should pride himself to have all the tongues that Babel cleft the world into, yet if he have not studied the solid things in them as well as the words and lexicons, he were nothing so much to be esteemed a learned man, as any yeoman or tradesman competently wise in his mother dialect only.
Page 187 - Tasso, Mazzoni, and others, teaches what the laws are of a true epic poem, what of a dramatic, what of a lyric, what decorum is, which is the grand masterpiece to observe.
Page 37 - British empire, a public institution for diffusing the knowledge and facilitating the general introduction of useful mechanical inventions and improvements, and for teaching, by courses of philosophical lectures and experiments, the application of science to the common purposes of life.
Page 189 - The interim of unsweating themselves regularly, and convenient rest before meat, may, both with profit and delight, be taken up in recreating and composing their travailed spirits with the solemn and divine harmonies of music, heard or learned ; either while the skilful organist plies his grave and fancied descant in lofty fugues, or the whole symphony with artful and unimaginable touches adorn and grace the well-studied chords of some choice composer...
Page 752 - My substance, was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. Thine eyes, did see my substance, yet being imperfect ; and, in thy book, all my members, were written, which, in continuance, were fashioned, when, as yet, there was none of them.
Page 188 - The Exercise which I commend first, is the exact use of their Weapon, to guard and to strike safely with edge, or point ; this will keep them healthy, nimble, strong, and well in breath, is also the likeliest means to make them grow large and tall, and to inspire them with a gallant and fearless courage...
Page 185 - Hercules' praises. Ere half these authors be read (which will soon be with plying hard and daily) they cannot choose but be masters of any ordinary prose. So that it will be then seasonable for them to learn in any modern author the use of the globes, and all the maps first with the old names and then with the new ; or they might be then capable to read any compendious method of natural philosophy.
Page 749 - And they brought young children to him, that he should touch them : and his disciples rebuked those that brought them. But when Jesus saw it, he was much displeased, and said unto them, Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God.
Page 188 - From hence, and not till now, will be the right season of forming them to be able writers and composers in every excellent matter, when they shall be thus fraught with an universal insight into things: or whether they be to speak in parliament or council, honor and attention would be waiting on their lips.
Page 184 - Next, to make them expert in the usefullest points of grammar, and withal to season them and win them early to the love of virtue and true labor, ere any flattering seducement or vain principle seize them wandering, some easy and delightful book of education would be read to them; whereof the Greeks have store, as Cebes, Plutarch, and other Socratic discourses.