The American Journal of Education, Volume 22Henry Barnard F.C. Brownell, 1871 - Education |
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... professors may be well contented and willing to spend their whole life in that function and attendance , without caring for practice . And therefore if you will have sciences flourish , you must observe David's military law ; which was ...
... professors may be well contented and willing to spend their whole life in that function and attendance , without caring for practice . And therefore if you will have sciences flourish , you must observe David's military law ; which was ...
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... Professors , " chosen for their solid and experimental knowledge of the things they teach , " and assisted " by Laboratories for Chemical Operations and Gardens for all manner of experiments . " SIR NATHAN DECKER , in 1744 , published ...
... Professors , " chosen for their solid and experimental knowledge of the things they teach , " and assisted " by Laboratories for Chemical Operations and Gardens for all manner of experiments . " SIR NATHAN DECKER , in 1744 , published ...
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... Professor of Oriental Languages there in 1756 , and of Natural Phi- losophy in 1760. He illustrated his college lectures ... professors , are Natural Philosophy , Chemistry , Natural History , Drawing , Mathematics , Veterinary Surgery ...
... Professor of Oriental Languages there in 1756 , and of Natural Phi- losophy in 1760. He illustrated his college lectures ... professors , are Natural Philosophy , Chemistry , Natural History , Drawing , Mathematics , Veterinary Surgery ...
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... professors ( many of whom have been very eminent in science ) than for the public . In 1720 , a Society with Handel at its head , received the patronage of the Court , and while performing the oratorios of its president enjoyed splendid ...
... professors ( many of whom have been very eminent in science ) than for the public . In 1720 , a Society with Handel at its head , received the patronage of the Court , and while performing the oratorios of its president enjoyed splendid ...
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... professors , four occasional professors , and a varying number of special assistants who are selected from the first - class stu- dents . There is also a schoolmaster who gives instruction one hour a day in general knowledge to each ...
... professors , four occasional professors , and a varying number of special assistants who are selected from the first - class stu- dents . There is also a schoolmaster who gives instruction one hour a day in general knowledge to each ...
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Page 178 - Hence appear the many mistakes which have made learning generally so unpleasing and so unsuccessful. First, we do amiss to spend seven or eight years, merely in scraping together so much miserable Latin and Greek as might be learned otherwise easily and delightfully in one year.
Page 767 - The eyes of all wait upon thee; and thou givest them their meat in due season. Thou openest thine hand, and satisfiest the desire of every living thing.
Page 178 - But because our understanding cannot in this body found itself- but on sensible things, nor arrive so clearly to the knowledge of God and things invisible, as by orderly conning over the visible and inferior creature, the same method is necessarily to be followed in all discreet teaching.
Page 33 - 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 21 - First therefore, amongst so many great foundations of colleges in Europe, I find it strange that they are all dedicated to professions, and none left free to arts and sciences at large. For if men judge that learning should be referred to action, they judge well ; but in this they fall into the error described in the ancient fable ; in which the other parts of the body did suppose the stomach had been idle, because it neither...
Page 180 - 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...
Page 178 - 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 185 - They would not then, if they were trusted with fair and hopeful armies, suffer them, for want of just and wise discipline, to shed away from about them like sick feathers, though they be never so oft...
Page 179 - And for the usual method of teaching arts, I deem it to be an old error of universities not yet well recovered from the scholastic grossness of barbarous ages that instead of beginning with arts most easy, and those be such as are most obvious to the sense, they present their young unmatriculated novices at first coming with the most intellective abstractions of logic and metaphysics...
Page 768 - By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead yet speaketh.