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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... master ? If this touching and graphic description , so true to nature , must be realised by the teacher , what strange mockery to speak of the pleasantness of teaching ! Happily for our purpose , however , it need not be realised ; the ...
... master ? If this touching and graphic description , so true to nature , must be realised by the teacher , what strange mockery to speak of the pleasantness of teaching ! Happily for our purpose , however , it need not be realised ; the ...
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... master ; " which , added he , " is one of the very worst conditions of childhood . Such a boy has no father , or worse than none ; he never can reflect on his parent , but the reflection brings to his mind some idea of pain inflicted ...
... master ; " which , added he , " is one of the very worst conditions of childhood . Such a boy has no father , or worse than none ; he never can reflect on his parent , but the reflection brings to his mind some idea of pain inflicted ...
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... master defect of nearly all schools . I know of no one thing which so powerfully counteracts the ex- ertions of teachers as this want of good discipline . + It is a great mistake to attend to instruction as the first thing ; the love of ...
... master defect of nearly all schools . I know of no one thing which so powerfully counteracts the ex- ertions of teachers as this want of good discipline . + It is a great mistake to attend to instruction as the first thing ; the love of ...
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... master is eagerly seized upon and attended to ; in others , it is as ha- bitually disregarded . " * I shall now just enumerate some directions in relation to this subject , which have been suggested to me by the remarks of practical men ...
... master is eagerly seized upon and attended to ; in others , it is as ha- bitually disregarded . " * I shall now just enumerate some directions in relation to this subject , which have been suggested to me by the remarks of practical men ...
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... . Now these sentiments and notions will generally be regulated by a very limited number of the pupils , the master spirits of their little world ; and it depends very much on the conduct of the teacher , whether 30 GOVERNMENT OF A SCHOOL .
... . Now these sentiments and notions will generally be regulated by a very limited number of the pupils , the master spirits of their little world ; and it depends very much on the conduct of the teacher , whether 30 GOVERNMENT OF A SCHOOL .
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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.