Lectures on EducationW. B. Fowle and N. Capen, 1845 - 338 Seiten |
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Seite 309 - Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child, but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him." " Withhold not correction from the child, for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die." " Thou shalt beat him with a rod and shalt deliver his soul from hell." "The rod and reproof give wisdom,
Seite 113 - passions tear, The vultures of the mind, Disdainful Anger, pallid Fear, And Shame that skulks behind, " Ambition this shall tempt to rise, Then whirl the wretch from high, To bitter Scorn a sacrifice, And grinning Infamy. " The stings of Falsehood, those shall
Seite 309 - a construction to one argument in its favor. They quote and apply, as though there were no qualification or limit to their applicability, such passages as these from the Proverbs of Solomon :— " He that spareth the rod, hateth his son, but he that loveth him chastiseth him betimes.
Seite 338 - deal with. Man, perchance, may bind The flower his step hath bruised; or light anew The torch he quenches; or to music wind Again the lyre-string from his touch that flew ;— But for the soul, oh, tremble, and beware To lay rude hands upon God's mysteries there 1
Seite 56 - of reason and the sense of duty, shall become fit to be a voter. Education must bring the practice as nearly as possible to the theory. As the children now are, so will the sovereigns soon be. How can we expect the fabric of the government to stand, if
Seite 56 - -judges of legislation,—in fine, to fill all the manifold relations of life. For this end, it must be universal. The whole land must be watered with the streams of knowledge. It is not enough to have, here and there, a beautiful fountain playing in palace-gardens; but let it come like the abundant fatness of the clouds upon
Seite 56 - thirsting earth. Finally, education, alone, can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity. God has revealed to us, —not by ambiguous signs, but by His mighty works;—not in the disputable language of human
Seite 226 - to poverty and drudgery should not be deprived by an improper education of the opiate of ignorance, yet," &c. One of these expressions of Dr. Johnson seems to have been caught from a celebrated couplet of Pope : " A little learning is a dangerous thing,
Seite 22 - off from the sun. Observe the blind, and the deaf and dumb. So strong is their inborn desire for knowledge,—such are the amazing attractive forces of their minds for it,— that, although those natural inlets, the eye and the ear, are closed, yet they will draw it inward, through the solid walls and
Seite 228 - deeply imbued with that fortunate vanity which alone could induce a man, who has arms to pare and burn a muir, to submit to the still more toilsome task of cultivating youth.'" In some admirable essays lately written in England, for an educational prize, the condition of the