Education: Intellectual, Moral, and PhysicalWilliams and Norgate, 1861 - 190 sider |
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... lesson - books put before them at between two and three years old , and the getting of knowledge was thought the one thing needful . As , further , it usually happens that after one of these reactions the next advance is achieved by co ...
... lesson - books put before them at between two and three years old , and the getting of knowledge was thought the one thing needful . As , further , it usually happens that after one of these reactions the next advance is achieved by co ...
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... lessons . The saying of Bacon , that physics is the mother of the sciences , has come to have a mean- ing in education . Without an accurate acquaintance with the visible and tangible properties of things , our conceptions must be ...
... lessons . The saying of Bacon , that physics is the mother of the sciences , has come to have a mean- ing in education . Without an accurate acquaintance with the visible and tangible properties of things , our conceptions must be ...
Side 65
... Lessons , " he again re- marks , " should cease before the child evinces symptoms of weariness . " And so with later ... lessons by lessons orally and experimentally given , like those of the field and play - ground , shows this . The ...
... Lessons , " he again re- marks , " should cease before the child evinces symptoms of weariness . " And so with later ... lessons by lessons orally and experimentally given , like those of the field and play - ground , shows this . The ...
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... lessons , -disgusted with them rather ; and , so far as we can gather , the Pestalozzian schools have not turned out any unusual proportion of dis- tinguished men : if even they have reached the average . We are not surprised at this ...
... lessons , -disgusted with them rather ; and , so far as we can gather , the Pestalozzian schools have not turned out any unusual proportion of dis- tinguished men : if even they have reached the average . We are not surprised at this ...
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... lessons ; and any hedge - schoolmaster can drill boys in the multiplication - table . But to teach spelling rightly by using the powers of the letters instead of their names , or to instruct in numerical combinations by experimental ...
... lessons ; and any hedge - schoolmaster can drill boys in the multiplication - table . But to teach spelling rightly by using the powers of the letters instead of their names , or to instruct in numerical combinations by experimental ...
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Side 2 - ... very little aided by this knowledge he took so many years to acquire — so little, that generally the greater part of it drops out of his memory; and if he occasionally vents a Latin quotation, or alludes to some Greek myth, it is less to throw light on the topic in hand than for the sake of effect. If we inquire what is the real motive for giving boys a classical education, we find it to be simply conformity to public opinion. Men dress their children's minds as they do their bodies, in the...
Side 8 - How to live ? — that is the essential question for us. Not how to live in the mere material sense only, but in the widest sense. The general problem which comprehends every special problem is — the right ruling of conduct in all directions under all circumstances.
Side 77 - 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.
Side 146 - As remarks a suggestive writer, the first requisite to success in life is " to be a good animal ; " and to be a nation of good animals is the first condition to national prosperity.
Side 45 - On the contrary, science opens up realms of poetry where to the unscientific all is a blank.
Side 75 - General formulas which men have devised to express groups of deMENTAL DEVELOPMENT m THE RACE. 75 tails, and which have severally simplified their conceptions by uniting many facts into one fact, they have supposed must simplify the conceptions of a child also. They have forgotten that a generalization is. simple only in comparison with the whole mass of particular truths it comprehends — that it is more complex than any one of these truths taken singly — that only after many of these single truths...
Side 55 - ... been kept in the background, that her haughty sisters might flaunt their fripperies in the eyes of the world. The parallel holds yet further. For we are fast coming to the denouement, when the positions will be changed; and while these haughty sisters sink into merited neglect, Science, proclaimed as highest alike in worth and beauty, will reign supreme.
Side 39 - Accomplishments, the fine arts, belles-lettres, and all those things which, as we say, constitute the efflorescence of civilization, should be wholly subordinate to that knowledge and discipline in which civilization rests. As they occupy the leisure part of life, so should they occupy the leisure part of education.
Side 27 - But a few years ago she was at school, where her memory was crammed with words, and names, and dates, and her reflective faculties scarcely in the slightest degree exercised — where not one idea was given her respecting the methods of dealing with the opening mind of childhood ; and where her discipline did not in the least fit her for thinking out methods of her own. The intervening years have been...
Side 35 - ... the relations of the sexes, and the relations of parents to children. The superstitions, also, from the more important myths down to the charms in common use, should be indicated. Next should come a delineation of the industrial system: showing to what extent the division of...