American Pedagogy: Education, the School, and the Teacher in American Literature ...Henry Barnard |
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... spirit to observe and examine , and explore , by the con- scious delight which every new step affords him . Evils of monotony , and advantages of variety . - Nor is the obvious design of the great Instructor less conspicuous in the ...
... spirit to observe and examine , and explore , by the con- scious delight which every new step affords him . Evils of monotony , and advantages of variety . - Nor is the obvious design of the great Instructor less conspicuous in the ...
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... spirit of childhood . Their effect is invaluable , in training the perceptive faculties to the keenest , closest , long - sustained action , without the sense of weariness or fatigue ; and their inspiring and refreshing influence gives ...
... spirit of childhood . Their effect is invaluable , in training the perceptive faculties to the keenest , closest , long - sustained action , without the sense of weariness or fatigue ; and their inspiring and refreshing influence gives ...
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... spirit , which examines and searches into all things within its sphere , aggregates their riches to itself , and ever comes home laden with results for the exercise of powers and faculties yet greater than itself ; and , to which it is ...
... spirit , which examines and searches into all things within its sphere , aggregates their riches to itself , and ever comes home laden with results for the exercise of powers and faculties yet greater than itself ; and , to which it is ...
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... spirit is ever ready to reveal to earnest desire and faithful endeavor . The human parent and the teacher stand , to the young mind , in the same oracular relation , as expound- ers and interpreters of the great volume of creation . But ...
... spirit is ever ready to reveal to earnest desire and faithful endeavor . The human parent and the teacher stand , to the young mind , in the same oracular relation , as expound- ers and interpreters of the great volume of creation . But ...
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... spirit of the wise suggestion of the poet ; and , even when in the very act of feeding the intellectual appetite , so contrive as " by giving " to " make it ask ! " Book Questions . - The teacher is not usually so remiss in regard to ...
... spirit of the wise suggestion of the poet ; and , even when in the very act of feeding the intellectual appetite , so contrive as " by giving " to " make it ask ! " Book Questions . - The teacher is not usually so remiss in regard to ...
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Page 308 - Promote, then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened.
Page 329 - Wisdom and knowledge, as well as virtue, diffused generally among the body of the people, being necessary for the preservation of their rights and liberties; and as these depend on spreading the opportunities and advantages of education in the various parts of the country, and among the different orders of the people...
Page 258 - Of Law there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world : all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power : both Angels and Men, and creatures of what condition soever, though each in different sort and manner, yet all, with uniform consent, admiring her as the Mother of their peace and joy.
Page 244 - DEAR common flower, that grow'st beside the way, Fringing the dusty road with harmless gold, First pledge of blithesome May, Which children pluck, and, full of pride uphold, High-hearted buccaneers, o'erjoyed that they An Eldorado in the grass have found, Which not the rich earth's ample round May match in wealth, thou art more dear to me Than all the prouder summer-blooms may be.
Page 327 - That every township in this jurisdiction, after the Lord hath increased them to the number of fifty house-holders, shall then forthwith appoint one within their town (1) Mass. Col. Recs. II. p. 203. to teach all such children as shall resort to him to write and read...
Page 491 - God, who at sundry times, and in divers manners, spake in times past unto the fathers by the prophets, hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son...
Page 472 - ... although we think we govern our words, and prescribe it well loquendum ut vulgus sentiendum ut sapientes, yet certain it is that words, as a Tartar's bow, do shoot back upon the understanding of the wisest, and mightily entangle and pervert the judgment.
Page 25 - E'er wore his crown as loftily as he Wears the green coronal of leaves with which Thy hand has graced him. Nestled at his root Is beauty, such as blooms not in the glare Of the broad sun. That delicate forest flower, With scented breath, and look so like a smile, Seems, as it issues from the shapeless mould, An emanation of the indwelling Life, A visible token of the upholding Love, That are the soul of this wide universe.
Page 448 - Let it flame or fade, and the war roll down like a wind, We have proved we have hearts in a cause, we are noble still, And myself have awaked, as it seems, to the better mind ; It is better to fight for the good, than to rail at the ill...
Page 314 - God hath tempered the body together, having given more abundant honor to that part which lacked : that there should be no schism in the body ; but that the members should have the same care one for another. And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it ; or one member be honored, all the members rejoice with it.