Education: Intellectual, Moral, and PhysicalD. Appleton, 1891 - 283 strán (strany) |
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Strana 126 - Children should be led to make their own investigations, and to draw their own inferences. They should be told as little as possible, and induced to discover as much as possible.
Strana 155 - We believe that on examination they will be found not only to progress from the simple to the complex, from the concrete to the abstract...
Strana 32 - How to live ? — that is the essential question for us. Not how to live in the mere material sense only, but in the widest sense. The general problem which comprehends every special problem is — the right ruling of conduct in all directions under all circumstances.
Strana 224 - As remarks a suggestive writer, the first requisite to success in life is " to be a good animal;" and to be a nation of good animals is the first condition to national prosperity.
Strana 216 - ... is the father of the independent English man ; and you cannot have the last without the first. German teachers say that they had rather manage a dozen German boys than one English one. Shall we, therefore, wish that our boys had the manageableness of...
Strana 206 - I am very apt to think that great Severity of Punishment does but very little Good; nay, great Harm in Education: And I believe it will be found, that, Cceteris paribus, those Children, who have been most chastised, seldom make the best Men.
Strana 95 - What knowledge is of most worth ? — the uniform reply is — Science. This is the verdict on all the counts. For direct self-preservation, or the mainitenanee of life and health, the all-important knowledge is — Science. For that indirect self-preservation which we call gaining a livelihood, the knowledge of greatest value is — Science. For the due discharge of parental functions, the proper guidance is to be found only in — -Science. For that interpretation of national life, past and present,...
Strana 69 - That which constitutes History, properly so called, is in great part omitted from works on the subject. Only of late years have historians commenced giving us, in any considerable quantity, the truly valuable information. As in past ages the king was everything and the people nothing; so, in past histories the doings of the king fill the entire picture, to which the national life forms but an obscure background. While only now, when the welfare of nations rather than of rulers is becoming the dominant...
Strana 64 - See the results. What with perceptions unnaturally dulled by early thwarting, and a coerced attention to books — what with the mental confusion produced by teaching subjects before they can be understood, and in each of them giving generalizations before the facts of which...
Strana 34 - They may be arranged into: 1. Those activities which directly minister to self-preservation; 2. Those activities which, by securing the necessaries of life, indirectly minister to self-preservation; 3. Those activities which have for their end the rearing and discipline of offspring; 4. Those activities which are involved in the maintenance of proper social and political relations; 5. Those miscellaneous activities which make up the leisure part of life, devoted to the gratification of the tastes...