Principles of Teaching, Or, The Normal School Manual: Containing Practical Suggestions on the Government and Instruction of ChildrenSunday-School Union, 1839 - 270 pages |
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... direct practical teachers , the Author could not but feel that he was assuming a position of no ordinary delicacy and difficulty . If he has succeeded , as has been kindly said , in " in- structing without dogmatism , and in correcting ...
... direct practical teachers , the Author could not but feel that he was assuming a position of no ordinary delicacy and difficulty . If he has succeeded , as has been kindly said , in " in- structing without dogmatism , and in correcting ...
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... direct a large share of his attention to the advancement of the elder scholars ; while the children , delivered from the irksome listlessness attendant upon the old methods of instruction , instead of forming habits of inattention and ...
... direct a large share of his attention to the advancement of the elder scholars ; while the children , delivered from the irksome listlessness attendant upon the old methods of instruction , instead of forming habits of inattention and ...
Page 52
... direct instruction of a purely didactic character . For this purpose , in the absence of an Infant School Gallery , it will be sufficient either to gather the children into the desks , or to collect them all together in the play ...
... direct instruction of a purely didactic character . For this purpose , in the absence of an Infant School Gallery , it will be sufficient either to gather the children into the desks , or to collect them all together in the play ...
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... direct from the words to the legitimate use of them , the com- munication of ideas . By inducing the child to draw on the resources of its own mind , it teaches him to compare , to discriminate , to judge ; a process by which he is ...
... direct from the words to the legitimate use of them , the com- munication of ideas . By inducing the child to draw on the resources of its own mind , it teaches him to compare , to discriminate , to judge ; a process by which he is ...
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... direct perception . " But he must in the mean time be taught the construction of maps of a much smaller space . Let him draw upon the slate , no matter how rudely , a square to represent the table upon which he is writing , or the room ...
... direct perception . " But he must in the mean time be taught the construction of maps of a much smaller space . Let him draw upon the slate , no matter how rudely , a square to represent the table upon which he is writing , or the room ...
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Page 246 - Young men likewise exhort to be sober-minded ; in all things shewing thyself a pattern of good works, in doctrine shewing uncorruptness, gravity, sincerity, sound speech, that cannot be condemned ; that he that is of the contrary part may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say of you.
Page 8 - He paused, as if revolving in his soul Some weighty matter, then, with fervent voice And an impassioned majesty, exclaimed — " O for the coming of that glorious time When, prizing knowledge as her noblest wealth And best protection, this imperial Realm, While she exacts allegiance, shall admit An obligation, on her part, to teach Them who are born to serve her and obey ; Binding herself by statute to secure For all the children whom her soil maintains The rudiments of letters, and inform The mind...
Page 168 - Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds; pleasant the sun, When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glistering with dew; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening
Page 148 - I cannot refrain from adding that the collection of tracts, which we call, from their excellence, the Scriptures, contain, independently of a divine origin, more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, purer morality, more important history, and finer strains both of poetry and eloquence, than could be collected, within the same compass, from all other books that were ever composed in any age or in any idiom.
Page 24 - Of law there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world ; all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power...
Page 130 - He who has nothing external that can divert him, must find pleasure in his own thoughts, and must conceive himself what he is not; for who is pleased with what he is'? He then expatiates in boundless futurity, and culls from all imaginable conditions that which for the present moment he should most desire, amuses his desires with impossible enjoyments, and confers upon his pride unattainable dominion.
Page 165 - Tis Nature's law That none, the meanest of created things, Of forms created the most vile and brute, The dullest or most noxious, should exist Divorced from good — a spirit and pulse of good, A life and soul, to every mode of being Inseparably linked.
Page 258 - This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that JESUS CHRIST came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief.
Page 246 - Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity.
Page 261 - The wicked flee when no man pursueth : but the righteous are bold as a lion.