Evolution in history, language, and science, four addresses delivered at the Crystal palace company's school of art, science and literatureCrystal Palace Company, 1884 - 158 sider |
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Side 55 - To give the net product of inquiry, without the inquiry that leads to it, is found to be both enervating and inefficient. General truths to be of due and permanent use, must be earned. " Easy come easy go," is a saying as applicable to knowledge as to wealth.
Side 58 - His whole method was founded on the principle of awakening the intellect of every individual boy. Hence it was his practice to teach by questioning. As a general rule, he never gave information, except as a kind of reward for an answer, and often withheld it altogether, or checked himself in the very act of uttering it, from a sense that those whom he was addressing had not sufficient interest or sympathy to entitle them to receive it.
Side 85 - Others, belike, with happier grace, From bronze or stone shall call the face, Plead doubtful causes, map the skies. And tell when planets set or rise ; But Roman thou, do thou control The nations far and wide ; Be this thy genius, to impose The rule of peace on vanquished foes, Show pity to the humbled soul, And crush the sons of pride.
Side 54 - I am convinced that the method of teaching which approaches most nearly to the method of investigation, is incomparably the best; since not content with serving up a few barren and lifeless truths, it leads to the stock on which they grew; it tends to set the reader himself in the track of invention, and to direct him into those paths in which the author has made his own discoveries, if he should be so happy as to have made any that are valuable.
Side 58 - It must from the outset and ever be remembered that the great object in view in education is to develop the. power of initiative and in all respects to form the character of the pupil. The appreciation of this contention is crucial. " The pious Pestalozzi is filled with measureless remorse when he finds that he has given a little boy a conception instead of inducing him to find it himself," remarks Professor Meiklejohn.
Side 58 - the expansive joy of soul over work" that is the source of all fine art?' All must agree with him that ' It would be good work, and work enough, for a professor of education if he could show us, in each subject, how the Didactic (telling instead of teaching) could be kept out of the teaching of it, and how learning might be made a vigorous excursion, with fresh woods and pastures new for the dawn of every morning.
Side 34 - ... conduct ourselves in all the situations of private and public life : that therefore we must apply ourselves to it in a philosophical spirit and manner ; that we must rise from particular to general knowledge, and that we must fit ourselves for the society and business of mankind by accustoming our minds to reflect and meditate on the characters we find described, and the course of events we find related there. Particular examples may be of use sometimes in particular cases ; but the application...
Side 64 - ... geographical instruction, or in developing the geographical imagination. V. On the conclusion of his inquiry the inspector will prepare a report embodying (1) a summary statement of the work done by him; (2) the results of his inquiries in the various directions indicated above; (3) the steps which he would recommend the council to take in order to improve and extend geographical education in the United Kingdom. This commission is dated July 26, 1884. Mr.
Side 64 - Aberdare said, only to express the fervent hope that this latest effort of the Society to promote the studies which it was founded to extend, may meet with a large measure of success and tend to lay the basis of a sound and...
Side 113 - XIV's dragonnades against the Huguenots, which culminated in the revocation of the Edict of Nantes (October 1685).