The Schoolmaster: Essays on Practical Education, Selected from the Works of Ascham, Milton, EtcCharles Knight, 1836 - 452 sider |
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Side 134
... language , which can scarcely ever do good , and must often do harm . It forfeits the child's respect , it forfeits his affection , and , what is worse , by frequency loses its own power . A child readily distinguishes between the language ...
... language , which can scarcely ever do good , and must often do harm . It forfeits the child's respect , it forfeits his affection , and , what is worse , by frequency loses its own power . A child readily distinguishes between the language ...
Side 149
... language can hardly suffice ; especi- ally if he is intended to travel . Short - hand , whether for dispatch or secrecy , is not less useful , but should not be learned till after a good writing - hand is formed . French and Latin are ...
... language can hardly suffice ; especi- ally if he is intended to travel . Short - hand , whether for dispatch or secrecy , is not less useful , but should not be learned till after a good writing - hand is formed . French and Latin are ...
Side 150
... Languages were made not by rules or art , but by acci- dent , and the common use of the people . And he that speaks ... language , or who desire to be critics , and make literature their occupation . If then a tutor cannot be had who is ...
... Languages were made not by rules or art , but by acci- dent , and the common use of the people . And he that speaks ... language , or who desire to be critics , and make literature their occupation . If then a tutor cannot be had who is ...
Side 244
... language , the parent's task is become both lighter and heavier : lighter , because the facilities of reasoning and explanation are afforded ; heavier , because the temptations of the child are increased . A friend has remarked to us ...
... language , the parent's task is become both lighter and heavier : lighter , because the facilities of reasoning and explanation are afforded ; heavier , because the temptations of the child are increased . A friend has remarked to us ...
Side 252
... language ; on the contrary , it can only be really valued when it is understood . Before children have attained their fourth year , some peculiar mental organization is developed , requiring direction , restraint , or encourage- ment ...
... language ; on the contrary , it can only be really valued when it is understood . Before children have attained their fourth year , some peculiar mental organization is developed , requiring direction , restraint , or encourage- ment ...
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Side 110 - I shall detain you no longer in the demonstration of what we should not do, but straight conduct ye to a hillside, where I will point ye out the right path of a virtuous and noble education; laborious indeed at the first ascent, but else so smooth, so green, so full of goodly prospect and melodious sounds on every side, that the Harp of Orpheus was not more charming.
Side 118 - The interim of unsweating themselves regularly, and convenient rest before meat, may, both with profit and delight, be taken up in recreating and composing their travailed...
Side 111 - I call therefore a complete and generous education that which fits a man to perform justly, skillfully, and magnanimously all the offices both private and public of peace and war.
Side 40 - I am with him. And when I am called from him I fall on weeping, because whatsoever I do else but learning is full of grief, trouble, fear, and whole misliking unto me. And thus my book hath been so much my pleasure, and bringeth daily to me more pleasure and more, that in respect of it all other pleasures, in very deed, be but trifles and troubles unto me.
Side 109 - ... that which casts our proficiency therein so much behind, is our time lost partly in too oft idle vacancies ' given both to schools and universities; partly in a preposterous exaction, forcing the empty wits of children to compose themes, verses, and orations, which are the acts of ripest judgment, and the final work of a head filled, by long reading and observing, with elegant maxims and copious invention.
Side 110 - ... and tyrannous aphorisms, appear to them the highest points of wisdom; instilling their barren hearts with a conscientious slavery, if, as I rather think, it be not feigned. Others, lastly, of a more delicious and airy spirit, retire themselves, knowing no better, to the enjoyments of ease and luxury, living out their days in feast and jollity; which, indeed, is the wisest and the safest course of all these, unless they were with more integrity undertaken.
Side 117 - ... that sublime art which in Aristotle's poetics, in Horace, and the Italian commentaries of Castelvetro,18 Tasso, Mazzoni, and others, teaches what the laws are of a true epic poem, what of a dramatic, what of a lyric, what decorum is, which is the grand masterpiece to observe.
Side 182 - of law there can be no less acknowledged than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world...
Side 104 - If two triangles have two sides of the one equal to two sides of the...
Side 40 - For when I am in presence either of father or mother, whether I speak, keep silence, sit, stand, or go, eat, drink, be merry or sad, be sewing, playing, dancing or doing anything else, I must do it, as it were, in such weight, measure and number, even so perfectly as God made the world...