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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... pains to interest them . Only insure good order , a clean and well - ventilated school - room , and happy faces ; and human nature must be strangely changed , if you do not find your full share of persons anxious to witness your ...
... pains to interest them . Only insure good order , a clean and well - ventilated school - room , and happy faces ; and human nature must be strangely changed , if you do not find your full share of persons anxious to witness your ...
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... pain inflicted , or of sorrow suffered . " Can we wonder that an office , which , in the eye even of the great moralist , ( himself a teacher , ) was thus associated with every thing that is hateful and degrading , should , by almost ...
... pain inflicted , or of sorrow suffered . " Can we wonder that an office , which , in the eye even of the great moralist , ( himself a teacher , ) was thus associated with every thing that is hateful and degrading , should , by almost ...
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... pain has a moral as well as a physical effect , -the effect which a blister has on the body , producing what is medically termed counter irritation . Thus the child's attention is withdrawn by the present pain from the fretfulness which ...
... pain has a moral as well as a physical effect , -the effect which a blister has on the body , producing what is medically termed counter irritation . Thus the child's attention is withdrawn by the present pain from the fretfulness which ...
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... attention can be obtained from children without the infliction of pain . " Happily for this generation , this notion is now nearly exploded . to devise some other remedy . " * Now , 64 " DIDAKTIK , " OR THE ART OF COMMUNICATING .
... attention can be obtained from children without the infliction of pain . " Happily for this generation , this notion is now nearly exploded . to devise some other remedy . " * Now , 64 " DIDAKTIK , " OR THE ART OF COMMUNICATING .
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... painful while it lasts . Do not then strain the muscles of its mind , or cause its little feet to bleed , by an unreasonable forgetfulness , either of its short footsteps , or of the difficulties of the way . " A good schoolmaster ...
... painful while it lasts . Do not then strain the muscles of its mind , or cause its little feet to bleed , by an unreasonable forgetfulness , either of its short footsteps , or of the difficulties of the way . " A good schoolmaster ...
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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.