The Education of ChildrenD. Appleton, 1899 - 191 Seiten |
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actions Æneid ancient Apperception Aristippus Aristotle arts authority better body Boëtie Cæsar Chapter child Chrysippus Cicero Comenius commend condemn custom danger Diogenes Laertius edition EDUCATION OF CHILDREN Epicurus Epist Essays exercise father fault favour follow fortune France François Rabelais French FRIEDRICH FROEBEL Froebel gentleman give Greek hand Herbartian honour Horace human idle instruction JAMES JOHONNOT JOSEPH BALDWIN judge judgment knowledge Lacedæmonians language Latin learning lesson live Locke Madame manner matter ment method mind Montaigne Montaigne's nature never noble opinion parents pedantry pedants Perigordian philosophy Plato play pleasant pleasure Plutarch practical princes Psychology pupil Pythagoras Quæs Quintilian Rabelais reason Roman senate Rousseau says Seneca Socrates soul speak Suetonius taigne taught teach teachers things thought tion Translated true truth Tusc tutor understanding virtue whole wisdom wise words write young youth
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Seite 42 - Let him inquire into the manners, revenues, and alliances of princes, things in themselves very pleasant to learn and very useful to know. In...
Seite 43 - ... there are a thousand others which he has only touched and glanced upon, where he only points with his finger to direct us which way we may go if we will, and contents himself sometimes with giving only one brisk hit in the nicest article of the question, whence we are to grope out the rest.
Seite 45 - When the vines of my village are nipped with the frost, my parish priest presently concludes, that the indignation of God is gone out against all the human race, and that the cannibals have already got the pip. Who is it, that seeing...
Seite 56 - Since philosophy is that which instructs us to live, and that infancy has there its lessons as well as other ages, why is it not communicated to children betimes? "The clay is moist and soft; now, now make haste, And form the vessel, for the wheel turns fast.
Seite 61 - tis not a body that we are training up, but a man, and we ought not to divide him. And, as Plato says, we are not to fashion one without the other, but make them draw together like two horses harnessed to a coach.
Seite 62 - Were it left to my ordering, I should paint the school with the pictures of joy and gladness; Flora and the Graces, as the philosopher Speusippus did his. Where their profit is, let them there have their pleasure too.
Seite 40 - Let his conscience and virtue be eminently manifest in his speaking, and have only reason for their guide. Make him understand, that to acknowledge the error he shall discover in his own argument, though only found out by himself, is an effect of judgment and sincerity, which are the principal things he is to seek after ; that obstinacy and contention are common qualities, most appearing in...
Seite 49 - Incipe. Qui recte vivendi prorogat horam, Rusticus exspectat, dum defluat amnis ; at ille Labitur et labetur in omne volubilis aevum.