Report on the State of Public Instruction in Prussia: Addressed to the Count de Montalivet ...E. Wilson, 1834 - 333 sider |
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Side 182 - If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies, fulfil ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind.
Side 182 - Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.
Side iv - He paused, as if revolving in his soul Some weighty matter; then, with fervent voice And an impassioned majesty, exclaimed — " 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 1 to secure For all the children whom her soil maintains The rudiments of letters, and inform The mind...
Side xvii - ... of wrong, we were to hold out to our humbler friends the appropriate and attainable, nay, unfailing, ends of a good education; — the gentle and kindly sympathies ; the sense of self-respect and of the respect of fellow men; the free exercise of the intellectual faculties; the gratification of a curiosity that
Side 126 - Christianity ought to be the basis of the instruction of the people ; we must not flinch from the open profession of this maxim ; it is no less politic than it is honest.
Side 262 - The pupils having then about ten lessons a week to give in the annexed school, (lessons for which they must be well prepared,) follow fewer courses in the school. Our principal aim, in each kind of instruction, Is to induce the young men to think and judge for themselves. We are opposed to all mechanical study and servile transcripts. The masters of our primary schools must possess intelligence themselves, in order to be able to awaken it in their pupils; otherwise, the state would doubtless prefer...
Side xvii - ... enjoyment of the beautiful in nature and art, and the kindred perception of the beauty and nobility of virtue ; the strengthening consciousness of duty fulfilled ; and, to crown all, " the peace which passeth all understanding...
Side 291 - The more I think of all this, sir, the more I look at the schools in this country, the more I talk with the directors of normal schools and counsellors of the ministry, the more I am strengthened in the conviction that we must make any efforts or any sacrifices to come to a good understanding with the clergy on the subject of popular education, and to constitute religion a special and very carefully-taught branch of instruction in our...
Side 289 - ... schools. But if the object we propose to ourselves is totally different, we must teach our children that religion which civilized our fathers; that religion whose liberal spirit prepared, and can alone sustain, all the great institutions of modern times. We must also permit the clergy to fulfill their first duty, — the superintendence of religious instruction.
Side 253 - ... duties. In this view alone can knowledge and talents profit a man ; otherwise, instruction, working upon sterile memory and talents purely mechanical, can be of no high utility. In order that the teacher, and particularly the master of the primary school, may make his pupils virtuous and enlightened men, it is necessary he should be so himself. Thus, that the education of a Normal School, essentially practical, may completely succeed, the young candidate must possess nobleness and purity of character...