A History of EducationAppleton, 1886 - 343 sider |
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Side 6
... never succeeded in producing a correct and complete theory of educa- tion . If a great thinker now and then approximated the truth , his voice was lost upon the heedless multi- tude . The practice could hardly be better than the theory ...
... never succeeded in producing a correct and complete theory of educa- tion . If a great thinker now and then approximated the truth , his voice was lost upon the heedless multi- tude . The practice could hardly be better than the theory ...
Side 12
... never reach any higher attainments . The teaching is wholly by rote the pupils repeat after the teacher the names of the characters in the book given them to study . After they have learned to pronounce the characters fluently they are ...
... never reach any higher attainments . The teaching is wholly by rote the pupils repeat after the teacher the names of the characters in the book given them to study . After they have learned to pronounce the characters fluently they are ...
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... never condescend to have their children educated by one of a lower caste . The system of education practiced in these schools is very defective , and the children make but little prog- ress ; they take a month or more to learn the ...
... never condescend to have their children educated by one of a lower caste . The system of education practiced in these schools is very defective , and the children make but little prog- ress ; they take a month or more to learn the ...
Side 31
... never been superseded . After a lapse of nearly three thousand years , they are regarded as an in- valuable poetic and literary treasury ; and some of its precious gems are set in the memory of each passing generation . " From a survey ...
... never been superseded . After a lapse of nearly three thousand years , they are regarded as an in- valuable poetic and literary treasury ; and some of its precious gems are set in the memory of each passing generation . " From a survey ...
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... never been surpassed ; in architecture and sculpture they have furnished models and inspira- tion for all time ; and in the most important departments of literature , in poetry , history , oratory , and philoso- phy , they have produced ...
... never been surpassed ; in architecture and sculpture they have furnished models and inspira- tion for all time ; and in the most important departments of literature , in poetry , history , oratory , and philoso- phy , they have produced ...
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Side 191 - The end then of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him, as we may the nearest by possessing our souls of true virtue, which, being united to the heavenly grace of faith, makes up the highest perfection.
Side 307 - Promote, then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened.
Side 318 - Washington, a department of education, for the purpose of collecting such statistics and facts as shall show the condition and progress of education in the several States and Territories, and of diffusing such information respecting the organization and management of schools and school systems, and methods of teaching, as shall aid the people of the United States in the establishment and maintenance of efficient school systems, and otherwise promote the cause of education throughout the country.
Side 183 - For men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight; sometimes for ornament and reputation; and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction; and most times for lucre and profession; and seldom sincerely to give a true account of their gift of reason, to the benefit and use of men...
Side 317 - Congress, according to the census of 1860, for the "endowment, support and maintenance of at least one college, where the leading object shall be, without excluding other scientific and classical studies, and including military tactics, to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts, ... in order to promote the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes in the several pursuits and professions of life.
Side 320 - Wisdom and knowledge, as well as virtue, diffused generally among the body of the people, being necessary for the preservation of their rights and liberties; and as these depend on spreading the opportunities and advantages of education in the various parts of the country, and among the different orders of the people...
Side 28 - Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they may be as frontlets between your eyes.
Side 184 - It seems to me that Pygmalion's frenzy is a good emblem or portraiture of this vanity : for words are but the images of matter, and except they have life of reason and invention, to fall in love with them is all one as to fall in love with a picture.
Side 182 - But further, it is an assured truth, and a conclusion of experience, that a little or superficial knowledge of philosophy may incline the mind of man to atheism, but a further proceeding therein doth bring the mind back again to religion. For in the entrance of philosophy, when the second causes, which are next unto the senses, do offer themselves to the mind of man, if it dwell .and stay there it may induce some oblivion of the highest cause ; but when a man passeth...
Side 217 - A SOUND mind in a sound body, is a short but full description of a happy state in this world : he that has these two, has little more to wish for ; and he that wants either of them, will be but little the better for any thing else.