Let Youth But Know: A Plea for Reason in EducationMethuen, 1909 - 265 sider |
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... school of life . My illustration postulates , of course , a wild impossibility . But which is more inconceivable : the schoolmasters of to - day administering a course of studies that would satisfy me , or a INTRODUCTION 19.
... school of life . My illustration postulates , of course , a wild impossibility . But which is more inconceivable : the schoolmasters of to - day administering a course of studies that would satisfy me , or a INTRODUCTION 19.
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... illustration . Looking from my study window this bright May morning , what do I perceive ? A stretch of undulating country , arable , pasture , and woodland ; a slow river winding down a broad , softly - moulded valley ; a vast expanse ...
... illustration . Looking from my study window this bright May morning , what do I perceive ? A stretch of undulating country , arable , pasture , and woodland ; a slow river winding down a broad , softly - moulded valley ; a vast expanse ...
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... illus- trated in the great strategic struggle of Pitt against Napoleon . In sum , then , " G. M.'s " discouraging experi- ence of the teaching of history in nowise depresses me . At worst it may be taken as showing that what I have ...
... illus- trated in the great strategic struggle of Pitt against Napoleon . In sum , then , " G. M.'s " discouraging experi- ence of the teaching of history in nowise depresses me . At worst it may be taken as showing that what I have ...
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... illus- tration of earlier periods , pages of Livy would come in here and there ; and in due time he might be guided through some of the close- packed sentences of Tacitus . But his reading should , at this point , be entirely subsidiary ...
... illus- tration of earlier periods , pages of Livy would come in here and there ; and in due time he might be guided through some of the close- packed sentences of Tacitus . But his reading should , at this point , be entirely subsidiary ...
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... illus- I In Hugh Rendal , the hero's bosom friend Lowden , represented as a boy of almost ideal character , cannot pass a cow in a field without " potting " her with his catapult . Hugh suggests that she is " rather poor game " ; but ...
... illus- I In Hugh Rendal , the hero's bosom friend Lowden , represented as a boy of almost ideal character , cannot pass a cow in a field without " potting " her with his catapult . Hugh suggests that she is " rather poor game " ; but ...
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