The American College, Volumen2

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The Association, 1910

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Página 328 - I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, 1 have kept the faith: henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing.
Página 405 - Scholars diet together, plainly, temperately, and frugally. That, to keep them in Health, and to strengthen and render active their Bodies, they be frequently exercis'd in Running, Leaping, Wrestling, and Swimming, &c.
Página 155 - ... now in Europe, now in Asia; they see visions of great cities and wild regions; they are in the marts of commerce, or amid the islands of the South; they gaze on Pompey's Pillar, or on the Andes; and nothing which meets them carries them forward or backward, to any idea beyond itself. Nothing has a drift or relation; nothing has a history or a promise. Everything stands by itself, and comes and goes in its turn, like the shifting scenes of a show, which leave the spectator where he was.
Página 381 - It is plain that you cannot impart " university methods " to thousands, or create '" investigators " by the score, unless you confine your university education to matters which dull men can investigate, your laboratory training to tasks which mere plodding diligence and submissive patience can compass. Yet, if you do so limit and constrain what you teach, you thrust taste and insight and delicacy of perception out of the schools, exalt the obvious and the merely useful above the things which are...
Página 356 - THE teaching profession nowadays fully recognizes the fact that only those processes of education are successful which procure the active interest and cooperation of the minds and wills subjected to them. During early school life the intelligent teacher tries in every way to rouse and maintain the interest of the pupil in the subjects of study, and endeavors to select studies for the individual pupil which are likely to hold his interest. For many children this animating and selective task...
Página 356 - Again, interest in their studies is not universal among that small proportion of American children who go on into a secondary school ; and in every college a perceptible proportion of the students exhibit a languid interest, or no interest, in their studies, and therefore bring little to pass during the very precious years of college life.
Página 359 - Thirdly, the elements of the arts applicable in ordinary households and in various trades or callings ought to be carefully taught in all schools, public, endowed, or private, such as drawing and designing, domestic science and art and home economics, carpentry and joinery, and, in rural communities, agriculture. Rural schools have an advantage here over urban schools, because agriculture has become such an admirable subject of school instruction since successful farming came to involve acquaintance...

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