Education, Volumen1New England Publishing Company, 1881 |
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Página 134 - put away childish things," we too soon forget how we " spake as a child, understood as a child, and thought as a child." " Put yourself in his place," should be the motto of the teacher. By thus becoming childlike, renewing his youth, reproducing his own early feelings and difficulties, the teacher can best prepare himself to meet the wants, weaknesses, and primal aspirations of the juvenile mind. He who can thus come down where children are, and be a child again, instead of growing old in heart...
Página 417 - God hath tempered the body together, having given more abundant honour to that part which lacked ; that there should be no schism in the body; but that the members should have the same care one for another. And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it ; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it.
Página 497 - Virgil with the boys makes me think what a treat it must be to teach Shakespeare to a good class of young Greeks in regenerate Athens ; to dwell upon him, line by line, and word by word, in the way that nothing but a translation lesson...
Página 22 - I thank God, there are no free schools nor printing, and I hope we shall not have these hundred years. For learning has brought disobedience and heresy, and sects into the world, and printing has divulged them, and libels against the best government. God keep us from both"!
Página 36 - The education of the whole people in a republican government," he said, " can never be attained without the consent of the whole people. Compulsion, even if it were desirable, is not an available instrument. Enlightenment, not coercion, is our resource.
Página 2 - ALL THE perceptions of the human mind resolve themselves into two distinct kinds, which I shall call impressions and ideas. The difference betwixt these consists in the degrees of force and liveliness with which they strike upon the mind and make their way into our thought or consciousness. Those perceptions which enter with most force and violence we may name impressions; and under this name I comprehend all our sensations, passions, and emotions, as they make their first appearance in the soul....
Página 24 - It was a simple log pen, about twenty feet square, with a doorway cut out of the logs, to which was fitted a rude door, made of clapboards, and swung on wooden hinges. The roof was covered with clapboards also, and retained in their places by heavy logs placed on them. The chimney was built of logs, diminishing in size from the ground to the top, and overspread inside and out with red clay mortar.
Página 47 - Imperial Caesar, dead and turned to clay, May stop a hole to keep the wind away...
Página 93 - Uprose the merry Sphinx, And crouched no more in stone; She melted into purple cloud, She silvered in the moon; She spired into a yellow flame; She flowered in blossoms red; She flowed into a foaming wave: She stood Monadnoc's head. Thorough a thousand voices Spoke the universal dame; "Who telleth one of my meanings Is master of all I am.
Página 512 - That into this liberal and catholic institution shall never be admitted any religious tests : But, on the contrary, all the members hereof shall forever enjoy full, free, absolute, and uninterrupted liberty of conscience...