| Massachusetts. Board of Education - Education - 1839 - 698 pages
...observation alone can give anything approaching to the true idea. I do not exaggerate when I say that the most active and lively schools I have ever seen in...faculties. It is certainly within bounds to say, that there were six times as many questions put and answers given, in the same space of time, as I ever heard... | |
| Massachusetts. Board of Education - Education - 1844 - 144 pages
...observation alone can give anything approaching to the true idea. I do not exaggerate when I say that the most active and lively schools I have ever seen in...their torpid state, and as yet but half conscious of tha possession of life and faculties. It is certainly within bounds to say, that there were six times... | |
| Education - 1844 - 688 pages
...observation can alone give anything approaching to the true idea. I do not exaggerate when I say, that the most active and lively schools I have ever seen in...fervid life of the Scotch schools : and, by the side of tlieire, our pupils would seem to be hybernating animals just emerging from their torpid state, and... | |
| Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1845 - 562 pages
...observation alone can give anything approaching to the true idea. I do not exaggerate when I say that the most active and lively schools I have ever seen in...their torpid state, and as yet but half conscious oi the possession of life and faculties. It ia certainly within bounds to say, that there were six... | |
| George Lewis (of Ormiston.) - Canada - 1845 - 448 pages
...observation alone can give anything approaching to the true idea. I do not exaggerate when I say that the most active and lively schools I have ever seen in...of theirs, our pupils would seem to be hybernating anima/s just emerging from then- torpid state, and as yet but half conscious of the possession of life... | |
| 1845 - 442 pages
...observation alone can give any thing approaching to a true idea. I do not exaggerate when I say, that the most active and lively schools I have ever seen in...dormitories, if compared with the fervid life of the Scottish schools ; and by the side of theirs, our pupils would seem to be hvbernating animals, just... | |
| Horace Mann - Education - 1867 - 498 pages
...observation alone can give any thing approaching to the true idea. I do not exaggerate when I say that the most active and lively schools I have ever seen in...dormitories, if compared with the fervid life of the Scoteh schools ; and, by the side of theirs, our pupils would seem to be hybernating animals just emerging... | |
| Horace Mann - Education - 1868 - 788 pages
...observation alone can give any thing approaching to the true idea. I do not exaggerate when I say that the most active and lively schools I have ever seen in...faculties. It is certainly within bounds to say that there were six times as many questions put and answers given, in the same space of time, as I ever heard... | |
| George Coutie - Boys - 1875 - 296 pages
...approaching to the true idea. I do not exaggerate when I say, that the most active and lively schools I have seen in the United States must be regarded almost...fervid life of the Scotch schools ; and by the side of these our pupils would seem to be hybernating animals, just emerging from their torpid state, and as... | |
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