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... truth for its own sake , the power of reflecting , and of forming correct judgments , were not merely neglected they were suppressed in the Jesuits ' sys- tem . But in what they attempted they were emi- nently successful , and their ...
... truth for its own sake , the power of reflecting , and of forming correct judgments , were not merely neglected they were suppressed in the Jesuits ' sys- tem . But in what they attempted they were emi- nently successful , and their ...
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... truth to fail out of their native land . Many of the banished , and Comenius among them , settled at the Polish town of Leszno , or , as the Germans call it , Lissa , near the Silesian frontier . Here there was an old established school ...
... truth to fail out of their native land . Many of the banished , and Comenius among them , settled at the Polish town of Leszno , or , as the Germans call it , Lissa , near the Silesian frontier . Here there was an old established school ...
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... truth , I find myself again among the same thorns . After the Pansophić Prodromus had been published and dispersed through various kingdoms of Europe , many of the learned approved of the object and plan of the work , but despaired of ...
... truth , I find myself again among the same thorns . After the Pansophić Prodromus had been published and dispersed through various kingdoms of Europe , many of the learned approved of the object and plan of the work , but despaired of ...
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... truth he was merely using fanciful illustrations from her . But whatever mistakes he and others may have made in consulting the oracle , it is no proof of wisdom to attempt , as practical men ' often do , to use these mistakes in ...
... truth he was merely using fanciful illustrations from her . But whatever mistakes he and others may have made in consulting the oracle , it is no proof of wisdom to attempt , as practical men ' often do , to use these mistakes in ...
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... truth . The direct influence of the private tutor is , I believe , less , and the indirect influence of the masters of a school more , than Locke and those who side with him imagine . Indeed , the influence of a really great head ...
... truth . The direct influence of the private tutor is , I believe , less , and the indirect influence of the masters of a school more , than Locke and those who side with him imagine . Indeed , the influence of a really great head ...
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Page 304 - 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 266 - We have no sympathy but what is propagated by pleasure: I would not be misunderstood; but wherever we sympathize with pain, it will be found that the sympathy is produced and carried on by subtle combinations with pleasure. We have no knowledge, that is, no general principles drawn from the contemplation of particular facts, but what has been built up by pleasure, and exists in us by pleasure alone.
Page 232 - 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 40 - Charondas, and thence to all the Roman edicts and tables with their Justinian, and so down to the Saxon and common laws of England, and the statutes.
Page 254 - Children should be led to make their own investigations, and to draw their own inferences. They should be told as little as possible, and induced to discover as much as possible.
Page 76 - As the strength of the body lies chiefly in being able to endure hardships, so also does that of the mind.
Page 232 - 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 106 - Julie, veut que les enfants soient enfants avant que d'ętre hommes. Si nous voulons pervertir cet ordre, nous produirons des fruits précoces qui n'auront ni maturité ni saveur, et ne tarderont pas ŕ se corrompre; nous aurons de jeunes docteurs et de vieux enfants.
Page 24 - This done thus, let the child, by and by, both construe and parse it over again; so that it may appear that the child doubteth in nothing that his master taught him before. After this, the child must take a paper book, and sitting in some place, where no man shall prompt him, by himself, let him translate into English his former lesson. Then showing it to his master, let the master take from him his Latin book, and pausing an hour at the least, then let the child translate his own English into Latin...
Page 112 - Pour apprendre ŕ penser, il faut donc exercer nos membres, nos sens, nos organes, qui sont les instruments de notre intelligence; et pour tirer tout le parti possible de ces instruments, il faut que le corps, qui les fournit, soit robuste et sain. Ainsi, loin que la véritable raison de l'homme se forme indépendamment du corps, c'est la bonne constitution du corps qui rend les opérations de l'esprit faciles et sűres.