The History of PedagogyD.C. Heath, 1894 - 598 páginas |
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ANALYTICAL SUMMARY ancient Aristotle Chalotais chap child colleges Comenius Condillac Condorcet Descartes devoted Diderot discipline doctrine duties educa education of women elementary Émile exercises faculties faults Fénelon finally Fræbel France French girls give grammar Greek hand heart Helvetius history of pedagogy human ideas inspired intelligence Jacqueline Pascal Jansenists Jesuits knowledge La Chalotais language Latin lessons letters Locke Madame de Maintenon Malebranche master ment methods mind Montaigne moral education mother nature normal schools Paris pedagogy Pestalozzi philosophers physical Plato Plutarch Port Royal practical primary instruction primary schools principles public instruction punishment pupils purpose Quintilian Rabelais reason reform religious Rollin Rousseau rules Saint Cyr Salle says sciences sense seventeenth century Socrates soul speak spirit taught teachers teaching things thought tion treatise truth University University of Paris virtues words writing young
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Página 565 - No matter how poor I am. No matter though the prosperous of my own time will not enter my obscure dwelling. If the Sacred Writers will enter and take up their abode under my roof, if Milton will cross my threshold to sing to me of Paradise, and...
Página 33 - The purpose of education is to give to the body and to the soul all the beauty and all the perfection of which they are capable.
Página 564 - It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds, and these invaluable means of communication are in the reach of all. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours.
Página 305 - Thus the whole education of women ought to be relative to men. To | please them, to be useful to them, to make themselves loved and honored by them, to educate them when young, to care for them when grown, to counsel them, to console them, and to make life agreeable and sweet to them— these are the duties of women at all times, and what should be taught them from their infancy.
Página 476 - Man owes his growth, his energy, chiefly to that striving of the will, that conflict with difficulty, which we call effort Easy, pleasant work does not make robust minds, does not give men a consciousness of their powers, does not train them to endurance, to perseverance, to steady force of will that force without which all other acquisitions avail nothing.
Página 565 - God be thanked for books. They are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.
Página 565 - Shakespeare to open to me the worlds of imagination and the workings of the human heart, and Franklin to enrich me with his practical wisdom, — I shall not pine for want of intellectual companionship, and I may become a cultivated man, though excluded from what is called the best society in the place where I live.
Página 115 - Were there neither soul, heaven, nor hell, it would still be necessary to have schools for the sake of affairs here below, as the history of the Greeks and Romans plainly teaches.
Página 484 - The most essential objects of education are the two following : First, to cultivate all the various principles of our nature, both speculative and active, in such a manner as to bring them to the greatest perfection of which they are susceptible ; and, secondly, by watching over the impressions and associations which the mind receives in early life, to secure it against the influence of prevailing errors, and, as far as possible, to engage its prepossessions on the side of truth.
Página 31 - Ought we not, on the contrary, to seek out artists of another stamp, who by the power of genius can trace out the nature of ^ the fair and the graceful, that our young men, dwelling as it were in a healthful region, may drink in good from every quarter, whence any emanation from noble works may strike upon their eye or their ear, like a gale wafting health from salubrious lands, and win them imperceptibly from their earliest childhood into resemblance, love, and harmony with the true beauty of reason?