The School and the Schoolmaster: A Manual for the Use of Teachers, Employers, Trustees, Inspectors, &c., &c., of Common Schools. In Two Parts |
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... give it such claims on the educator . † When * From the Latin words e and duco , to lead or draw out of . + " Certainly , " says Lord Bacon , “ custom is most perfect when habit has once fastened itself on the intellect and the CHAPTER ...
... give it such claims on the educator . † When * From the Latin words e and duco , to lead or draw out of . + " Certainly , " says Lord Bacon , “ custom is most perfect when habit has once fastened itself on the intellect and the CHAPTER ...
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... give it control of its own powers , and to teach it to- wards what those powers should be directed . It is to en dow it by practice with the ability to collect its energies at will , and to fix them long on one point . It is to train ...
... give it control of its own powers , and to teach it to- wards what those powers should be directed . It is to en dow it by practice with the ability to collect its energies at will , and to fix them long on one point . It is to train ...
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... give them the full command of every facul- ty , both of mind and body ; which will call into play their powers of observation and reflection ; which will make thinking and reasonable beings of the mere creatures of im- pulse , prejudice ...
... give them the full command of every facul- ty , both of mind and body ; which will call into play their powers of observation and reflection ; which will make thinking and reasonable beings of the mere creatures of im- pulse , prejudice ...
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... give , and of a great nation to receive ; and the time is near at hand when the attainment of an object thus comprehensive in its character , and leading to results , the practical benefits of which it is almost impossible for even the ...
... give , and of a great nation to receive ; and the time is near at hand when the attainment of an object thus comprehensive in its character , and leading to results , the practical benefits of which it is almost impossible for even the ...
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... give him worthy objects on which to exer- cise them ; invest him with proper control over them , and let him have tasted often the pleasure of employing them in the acquisition of truth , and he will gain knowledge for him- self . Yet ...
... give him worthy objects on which to exer- cise them ; invest him with proper control over them , and let him have tasted often the pleasure of employing them in the acquisition of truth , and he will gain knowledge for him- self . Yet ...
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Page 341 - O for the coming of that glorious time When, prizing knowledge as her noblest wealth And best protection, this imperial Realm, While she exacts allegiance, shall admit An obligation, on her part, to teach Them who are born to serve her and obey ; Binding herself by statute to secure For all the children whom her soil maintains . The rudiments of letters, and inform The mind with moral and religious truth...
Page 377 - The warbling woodland, the resounding shore, The pomp of groves, and garniture of fields; All that the genial ray of morning gilds, And all that echoes to the song of even, All that the mountain's sheltering bosom shields, And all the dread magnificence of heaven, O how canst thou renounce, and hope to be forgiven ! X.
Page 69 - Let it simply be asked, where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation desert the oaths which are the instruments of investigation in courts of justice ? And let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious...
Page 80 - Anon they move In perfect phalanx to the Dorian mood Of flutes and soft recorders...
Page 26 - tis true, this god did shake ; His coward lips did from their colour fly, And that same eye whose bend doth awe the world Did lose his lustre ; I did hear him groan ; Ay, and that tongue of his that bade the Romans Mark him and write his speeches in their books, Alas ! it cried 'Give me some drink, Titinius,
Page 91 - What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. Sure he that made us with such large discourse, Looking before and after, gave us not That capability and god-like reason To fust in us unus'd.
Page 138 - And though the number of them be perhaps double to what it was formerly, by reason of this present great distress, yet in all times there have been about one hundred thousand of those vagabonds, who have lived without any regard or subjection either to the laws of the land, or even those of God and nature ; fathers incestuously accompanying with their own daughters, the son with the mother, and the brother with the sister.
Page 100 - My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky : So was it when my life began ; So is it now I am a man ; So be it when I shall grow old, Or let me die ! " The child is father of the man ; And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety.
Page 78 - The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils; The motions of his spirit are dull as night And his affections dark as Erebus: Let no such man be trusted.
Page 22 - I call therefore a complete and generous education that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously all the offices both private and public of peace and war.