Education: Intellectual, Moral, and PhysicalD. Appleton, 1860 - 301 sider |
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... spontaneous phys- ical activities they would indulge in ; and so ren- der them comparatively incapable of taking care of themselves in circumstances of peril . This , however , is by no means all that is com- prehended in the education ...
... spontaneous phys- ical activities they would indulge in ; and so ren- der them comparatively incapable of taking care of themselves in circumstances of peril . This , however , is by no means all that is com- prehended in the education ...
Side 46
... spontaneous education which goes on in early years - not perceiving that a child's restless observation , instead of being ig- nored or checked , should be diligently administered to , and made as accurate and complete as possible ...
... spontaneous education which goes on in early years - not perceiving that a child's restless observation , instead of being ig- nored or checked , should be diligently administered to , and made as accurate and complete as possible ...
Side 89
... spontaneous activity with- " You mustn't do so . " While on the contrary , now that happi- ness is coming to be regarded as a legitimate aim— now that hours of labour are being shortened and popular recreations provided , parents and ...
... spontaneous activity with- " You mustn't do so . " While on the contrary , now that happi- ness is coming to be regarded as a legitimate aim— now that hours of labour are being shortened and popular recreations provided , parents and ...
Side 99
... spontaneous activity of the observing fac- ulties in children has a meaning and a use . What was once thought mere purposeless action , or play , or mischief , as the case might be , is now recog- nised as the process of acquiring a ...
... spontaneous activity of the observing fac- ulties in children has a meaning and a use . What was once thought mere purposeless action , or play , or mischief , as the case might be , is now recog- nised as the process of acquiring a ...
Side 103
... spontaneously develop , and a certain kind of knowledge which each requires during its devel- opment ; and that it is for us to ascertain this se- quence , and supply this knowledge . All the im- provements above alluded to are partial ...
... spontaneously develop , and a certain kind of knowledge which each requires during its devel- opment ; and that it is for us to ascertain this se- quence , and supply this knowledge . All the im- provements above alluded to are partial ...
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acquired action activity adult alike animals asceticism bear become bodily body cause chil child colour commonly conduct conform conse consequences considered constitution course culture daily discipline dren dyspepsia effects energy entailed eral evil exer exercise experience facts faculties feelings follows further gained gratification greater growth gymnastics habitually Hence Herbert Spencer human ical inferred inflicted injury intellectual juvenile kind knowledge labour larvæ laws less lessons manifest means ment mental method metic mind moral mother MUSCULAR CHRISTIANITY natural navvy needful observation octahedron pain parents penalties Pestalozzi phenomena physical pleasurable poetry practice principles process of self-development produce punishment pupil quantity question rational reactions recognised respect rience scarcely self-preservation Sir John Forbes social sociology spect spontaneous success tained teachers teaching tendency things tion tive transgression trinsic true truth viscera youth
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Side 153 - We believe that on examination they will be found not only to progress from the simple to the complex, from the concrete to the abstract...
Side 11 - 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 57 - The only history that is of practical value, is what may be called Descriptive Sociology. And the highest office which the historian can discharge, is that of so narrating the lives of nations, as to furnish materials for a Comparative Sociology; and for the subsequent determination of the ultimate laws to which social phenomena conform.
Side 232 - 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 63 - As they occupy the leisure part of life, so should they occupy the leisure part of education.
Side 120 - 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 49 - For shoe-making or house-building, for the management of a ship or a locomotive-engine, a long apprenticeship is needful. Is it, then, that the unfolding of a human being in body and mind, is so comparatively simple a process, that any one may superintend and regulate it with no preparation whatever? If not — if the process is with one exception more complex than any in Nature, and the task of administering to it one of surpassing difficulty; is it not madness to make no provision for such a task?...
Side 29 - ... country ; as well as the mines that run underneath it. Out of geometry, too, as applied to astronomy, the art of navigation has grown ; and so, by this science, has been made possible that enormous foreign commerce which supports a large part of our population, and supplies us with many necessaries and most of our luxuries. And nowadays even the farmer, for the correct laying out of his drains, has recourse to the level — that is, to geometrical principles. When from those divisions of mathematics...
Side 14 - They may be arranged into: 1. Those activities which directly minister to self-preservation; 2. Those activities which, by securing the necessaries of life, indirectly minister to self-preservation; 3. Those activities which have for their end the rearing and discipline of offspring; 4. Those activities which are involved in the maintenance of proper social and political relations; 5. Those miscellaneous activities which make up the leisure part of life, devoted to the gratification of the tastes...
Side 43 - 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...