Essays on Educational ReformersC.W. Bardeen, 1886 - 331 Seiten |
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... less satisfied than the author . They may , however , prove useful till they give place to a bet- ter book . Several of the following essays are nothing more than compilations . Indeed a hostile critic might assert that I had used the ...
... less satisfied than the author . They may , however , prove useful till they give place to a bet- ter book . Several of the following essays are nothing more than compilations . Indeed a hostile critic might assert that I had used the ...
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... less than eleven schools , and my perception of the blunders of other teachers is derived mainly from the remembrance of my own . Some of my mistakes have been brought home to me by reading works on education , even those with which I ...
... less than eleven schools , and my perception of the blunders of other teachers is derived mainly from the remembrance of my own . Some of my mistakes have been brought home to me by reading works on education , even those with which I ...
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... less ambitious , but more prac- tically useful . " My counsel , " said Oxenstiern , " is that you first satisfy the wants of the schools by rendering a knowledge of the Latin language of easier acquisition , and thereby preparing the ...
... less ambitious , but more prac- tically useful . " My counsel , " said Oxenstiern , " is that you first satisfy the wants of the schools by rendering a knowledge of the Latin language of easier acquisition , and thereby preparing the ...
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... less entertaining . As a picture of the life and man- ners of the seventeenth century , the work has great his- torical interest , which will , I hope , secure for it another English edition ; especially as the last ( that of 1777 , re ...
... less entertaining . As a picture of the life and man- ners of the seventeenth century , the work has great his- torical interest , which will , I hope , secure for it another English edition ; especially as the last ( that of 1777 , re ...
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... less than the influence of the boys on one another . Moreover , those who know much of school- boys will probably admit that their average morality is not high . Though not without strong generous im- pulses , the ordinary schoolboy ...
... less than the influence of the boys on one another . Moreover , those who know much of school- boys will probably admit that their average morality is not high . Though not without strong generous im- pulses , the ordinary schoolboy ...
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Seite 301 - Whether we provide for action or conversation, whether we wish to be useful or pleasing, the first requisite is the religious and moral knowledge of right and wrong ; the next is an acquaintance with the history of mankind, and with those examples which may be said to embody truth, and prove by events the reasonableness of opinions.
Seite 55 - 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.
Seite 299 - The end then of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him, as we may the nearest by possessing our souls of true virtue, which, being united to the heavenly grace of faith, makes up the highest perfection.
Seite 229 - 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?
Seite 85 - But till you can find a school, wherein it is possible for the master to look after the manners of his scholars, and can show as great effects of his care of forming their minds to virtue, and their carriage to good breeding, as of forming their tongues to the learned languages ; you must confess, that you have a strange value for words, when, preferring the languages of the ancient Greeks and Romans to that which made them such brave men, you think it worth while to hazard your son's innocence and...
Seite 249 - The education of the child must accord both in mode and arrangement with the education of mankind as considered historically; or in other words, the genesis of knowledge in the individual must follow the same course as the genesis of knowledge in the race.
Seite 301 - Prudence and justice are virtues and excellences of all times and of all places ; we are perpetually moralists, but we are geometricians only by chance. Our intercourse with intellectual nature is necessary ; our speculations upon matter are voluntary and at leisure.
Seite 229 - 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.
Seite 249 - Thus confounding two kinds of simplification, teachers have constantly erred by setting out with " first principles " : a proceeding essentially, though not apparently, at variance with the primary rule; which implies that the mind should be introduced to principles through the medium of examples, and so should be led from the particular to the general — from the concrete to the abstract.
Seite 250 - 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.