School Economy: A Treatise on the Preparation, Organization, Employments, Government, and Authorities of Schools

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J. B. Lippincott & Company, 1864 - 366 sider
 

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Side 320 - ... with their correlatives freedom of choice and responsibility — man being all this, it is at once obvious that the principal part of his being is his mental power. In Nature there is nothing great but Man, In Man there is nothing great but Mind.
Side 3 - A school-house so situated that the chil tren who frequent it can look out in all directions upon scenes of romantic wildness or quiet beauty will teach many lessons better than they can be learned from books. "We are taught unconsciously by the objects that surround us; and towering mountains and peaceful valleys, golden grain and shaded forests, rough wild rocks and pleasant gardens, villages dotting the neighboring plains, and vessels gliding along the distant river, — all have truth for the...
Side 319 - Thou must be true thyself, If thou the truth wouldst teach; Thy soul must overflow, if thou Another's soul wouldst reach. It needs the overflow of heart To give the lips full speech.
Side 347 - Character has been defined as a perfectly formed will, but it must be understood that the principal agent in forming the will is the will itself. The will, building character by its own conscious acts, is the supreme aim of moral training. The child that is trained up "in the way he should go will not depart from it," because his will has become morally formed and he does not choose to. How to provide the child with a moral experience rather than simply moral ideas, is the problem we have to work...
Side 318 - They made us many soldiers. Chatham, still Consulting England's happiness at home, Secured it by an unforgiving frown, If any wrong'd her. Wolfe, where'er he fought, Put so much of his heart into his act, That his example had a magnet's force, And all were swift to follow whom all loved.
Side 42 - ... be well made and carefully painted. A cheap and serviceable black-surface for walls may be made by the following recipe : — 4 pecks of white finish, or white coating. 4 pecks of beach or other fine sharp sand. 4 pecks of ground plaster. 4 pounds of lampblack. 4 gallons of alcohol or good whiskey. This quantity will make a mixture sufficient to cover twenty square yards of surface. A little flour of emery will prevent the mixture from "setting" immediately, thus giving time to put it on the...
Side 161 - that there is any difference between the presence of God here or there ? ' ' Indeed I do,' said I. ' Here we see through a glass, darkly ; but there face to face.
Side 257 - Real sorrow may follow the commission of a fault, and that may be a sufficient punishment. Nature's laws are inexorable. Those who break them must abide the consequences; and yet these laws are entirely compatible with Divine love. So those who violate the laws of the school must be punished, and proper punishment will be to them the greatest kindness. Any escape from the consequences of bad actions only tempts to further crime. This is emphatically the case with children. A teacher's indulgence...
Side 159 - Scatter diligently in susceptible minds The germs of the good and the beautiful! They will develop there to trees, bud, bloom, And bear the golden fruits of Paradise.
Side 302 - ... and sentiments of civilized nations, you will see the transaction in a very different light from that in which it appeared at the time of writing your Letter, and ascribe the advice .of the Council, not to want of attention to the sacred nature of public conventions, of which I hope we shall never, in any circumstances, lose sight, but to a desire of stopping the effusion of ye unoffending blood of women and children...

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