The Schoolmaster: Essays on Practical Education, Selected from the Works of Ascham, Milton, Locke, and Butler; from the Quarterly Journal of Education; and from Lectures Delivered Before the American Institute of Instruction, Band 1C. Knight, 1836 |
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... children is a subject deserving of all the attention which it has received from some of the most profound thinkers . During the last few years various alterations , and , in some instances , improve- ments , have been proposed upon the ...
... children is a subject deserving of all the attention which it has received from some of the most profound thinkers . During the last few years various alterations , and , in some instances , improve- ments , have been proposed upon the ...
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... children . In all communities there are a few minds considerably in advance of the many ; a few who will think and act for themselves , in spite of the trammels imposed by custom . The prevalent errors on the subject of which we are ...
... children . In all communities there are a few minds considerably in advance of the many ; a few who will think and act for themselves , in spite of the trammels imposed by custom . The prevalent errors on the subject of which we are ...
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... child and parent . The sensible visiter will allow such scenes to pass before him in silence ; the early age of the child forbids us to suppose that he understands all that he has been taught to repeat . The present mode of teaching the ...
... child and parent . The sensible visiter will allow such scenes to pass before him in silence ; the early age of the child forbids us to suppose that he understands all that he has been taught to repeat . The present mode of teaching the ...
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... child's pronunciation , it is surely better to attain this certain good , which may be attained without trouble or annoyance to the child , than to force it to utter words above its comprehension , and to dole out sounds which nobody ...
... child's pronunciation , it is surely better to attain this certain good , which may be attained without trouble or annoyance to the child , than to force it to utter words above its comprehension , and to dole out sounds which nobody ...
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... child utters imperfectly . The l , the w , the d , the r , and they are often difficult letters for a child to pronounce : table is called tabin ; elephant , a- yephant ; wood , vood ; dog , gog ; rabbit , thabbit or yabbit ; yesterday ...
... child utters imperfectly . The l , the w , the d , the r , and they are often difficult letters for a child to pronounce : table is called tabin ; elephant , a- yephant ; wood , vood ; dog , gog ; rabbit , thabbit or yabbit ; yesterday ...
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Seite 96 - This is useful in fortification ; ' ' you cannot play at billiards without this.' ' You only look through a telescope like a Hottentot until this proposition is read,' with many such powerful strokes of rhetoric to the same purpose. And upon such terms, and with such inducements, who would not be a mathematician? Who would go to work with all that apparatus which I have described as necessary for understanding Euclid, when he has only to take a pleasant walk with Clairaut upon the flowery banks of...
Seite 149 - A person has two horses, and a saddle worth £50 ; now, if the saddle be put on the back of the first horse, it will make his value double that of the second ; but if it be put on the back of the second, it will make his value triple that of the first ; what is the value of each horse ? Ans.
Seite 246 - Above me are the Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps, And throned Eternity in icy halls Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls The avalanche — the thunderbolt of snow ! All that expands the spirit, yet appals, Gather around these summits, as to show How Earth may pierce to Heaven, yet leave vain man below.
Seite 258 - Tarsus held ; or that seabeast Leviathan, which God of all his works Created hugest that swim the ocean stream...
Seite 127 - The angle at the centre of a circle is double of the angle at the circumference upon the same base, that is, upon the same part of the circumference.
Seite 252 - ... interest in after life : he who loves a flower in youth will love it when he is old. The taste for nature must be planted early in life, to enable its possessor to enjoy a ripened harvest. Every thing which the Deity has created is worthy of our attention. " Nature has nothing made so base, but can Read some instruction to the wisest man.
Seite 127 - To prove that the exterior angle of a triangle is equal to the sum of the two interior opposite angles (see fig.
Seite 232 - When we have amassed a great store of such general facts, they become the objects of another and higher species of classification, and are themselves included in laws which, as they dispose of groups, not individuals, have a far superior degree of generality, till at length, by continuing the process, we arrive at axioms of the highest degree of generality of which science is capable. This process is what we mean by induction.
Seite 292 - Tuscan poets of the same age. But Tuscany had this advantage over the rest, that its familiar spoken language was more generally polished, so as to resemble the poetical and select language of the other Italians, and the Tuscan poets had the benefit of writing in a living dialect, ' lingua volgare,' and their poems were understood by the generality of their country-1 men.
Seite 53 - ... deserve to succeed. Irritated or wearied by this failure, little manifestations of temper often take the place of the gentle tone with which the lesson commenced, by which the child, whose perception of such a change is very acute, is thoroughly cowed and discouraged, and left to believe that the fault was his own, when it really was that of his instructor.