The Massachusetts Teacher: A Journal of School and Home Education, Bind 8S. Coolidge, 1855 |
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Side 12
... mental activity , by proposing questions at the close of the recitation , and allowing the one who first gives a correct answer , to go first from the class , as is now so generally practised . Be sure to associate large numbers with ...
... mental activity , by proposing questions at the close of the recitation , and allowing the one who first gives a correct answer , to go first from the class , as is now so generally practised . Be sure to associate large numbers with ...
Side 21
... mental science , that that great generalization which includes everything , and gives to whatever can influence man , an intense meaning , can be completed . " * If it be denied that a child can understand the great philo- sophical ...
... mental science , that that great generalization which includes everything , and gives to whatever can influence man , an intense meaning , can be completed . " * If it be denied that a child can understand the great philo- sophical ...
Side 22
... Mental Science , flourishing in full luxuriance , and yielding an abundance of sat- isfactory fruit . IV . METHOD OF TEACHING IT , This should be chosen with a view to inspiring the teacher and taught with enthusiasm , and with due ...
... Mental Science , flourishing in full luxuriance , and yielding an abundance of sat- isfactory fruit . IV . METHOD OF TEACHING IT , This should be chosen with a view to inspiring the teacher and taught with enthusiasm , and with due ...
Side 24
... mental development ; his organic apparatus is therefore secondary , and that of relation primary . If we commence with the mind we may observe what is necessary that it may receive influences from , and exert them upon the world . This ...
... mental development ; his organic apparatus is therefore secondary , and that of relation primary . If we commence with the mind we may observe what is necessary that it may receive influences from , and exert them upon the world . This ...
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... mental energy which the world has seen ; that in this respect most especially , we are , if we know how to use our advantages , inheritors of the wealth of the richest times ; strong in the power of all the giants of all ages ; placed ...
... mental energy which the world has seen ; that in this respect most especially , we are , if we know how to use our advantages , inheritors of the wealth of the richest times ; strong in the power of all the giants of all ages ; placed ...
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Side 330 - True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance. 'Tis not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an echo to the sense...
Side 211 - In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Side 17 - ... bring up, so as to escape his censure. I learnt from him, that Poetry, even that of the loftiest and, seemingly, that of the wildest odes, had a logic of its own, as severe as that of science; and more difficult, because more subtle, more complex, and dependent on more, and more fugitive causes. In the truly great poets, he would say, there is a reason assignable, not only for every word, but for the position of every word...
Side 277 - Bowling is good for the stone and reins; shooting for the lungs and breast; gentle walking for the stomach; riding for the head; and the like. So if a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again: if his wit be not apt to distinguish or find differences, let him study the schoolmen; for they are cymini sectores...
Side 50 - SAINT AUGUSTINE ! well hast thou said, That of our vices we can frame A ladder, if we will but tread Beneath our feet each deed of shame...
Side 276 - Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
Side 296 - That our sons may be as plants Grown up in their youth ; That our daughters may be as corner-stones, Polished after the similitude of a palace...
Side 50 - We have not wings —we cannot soar— But we have feet to scale and climb By slow degrees — by more and more — The cloudy summits of our time.
Side 16 - Virgil to Ovid. He habituated me to compare Lucretius, (in such extracts as I then read,) Terence, and, above all, the chaster poems of Catullus, not only with the Roman...
Side 276 - STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight is in privateness and retiring ; for ornament, is in discourse ; and for ability, is in the judgement and disposition of business. For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one ; but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs, come best from those that are learned.