Prize Essay and Lectures, Delivered Before the American Institute of Instruction ... Including the Journal of Proceedings, Volumen7List of members included in each volume, beginning with 1891. |
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... given by female teachers of common schools , 108 — physical edu- cation , 108 - the common branches of instruction , 108 — what children belong to these instructers , 109 - teachers must understand their characters and wants , 109 ...
... given by female teachers of common schools , 108 — physical edu- cation , 108 - the common branches of instruction , 108 — what children belong to these instructers , 109 - teachers must understand their characters and wants , 109 ...
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... given to all clergymen and also to gentlemen who have heretofore delivered lectures before the Institute , to attend our meetings . The Institute then adjourned to half past 11 o'clock , A. M. At half past 11 , prayers were offered by ...
... given to all clergymen and also to gentlemen who have heretofore delivered lectures before the Institute , to attend our meetings . The Institute then adjourned to half past 11 o'clock , A. M. At half past 11 , prayers were offered by ...
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... given him . He should be taught reliance upon himself , confidence in his own resources , and hope of happiness and usefulness in life . But I fancy some of my hearers are ready to exclaim , im- patiently , when shall we hear about the ...
... given him . He should be taught reliance upon himself , confidence in his own resources , and hope of happiness and usefulness in life . But I fancy some of my hearers are ready to exclaim , im- patiently , when shall we hear about the ...
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... given in French and Spanish . The number of boys for the past year has averaged more than sixty , and I have no assistance . I generally secure order and quiet , by making it the boys ' interest to be still , -dismissing the school ...
... given in French and Spanish . The number of boys for the past year has averaged more than sixty , and I have no assistance . I generally secure order and quiet , by making it the boys ' interest to be still , -dismissing the school ...
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... given , should be held responsible , if called on , and be considered as failing to recite , in failing to repeat . By a few such demands every exercise has enabled me to secure the closest attention , tested by successful trials ...
... given , should be held responsible , if called on , and be considered as failing to recite , in failing to repeat . By a few such demands every exercise has enabled me to secure the closest attention , tested by successful trials ...
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Términos y frases comunes
action of mind Alcott almshouse Andover applied attention Boston Brownson cause character cherish Cicero civilization common schools course cultivated declamation defect Demosthenes discipline duty E. A. Andrews early effect efforts eloquence Emerson evil exercise exist express faculties feel female teachers give Greenleaf habits happiness heart house I live human ignorance important improvement impulses incite indolent influence Institute instruction intel intellectual interest judgment Kimball kind knowledge labor language laws learning lecture lessons means ment mental moral nature necessary neglect never object orators organic laws parents passions persons Pettis phrenology physical Pilgrim fathers present principle profes propen proportion pupils recitations regard requires rules scholars school discipline secure sense society soul speakers speaking spirit success taste taught teachers of common tenement things Thomas Cushing thought tion true truth well-doing whole young youth
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Página 79 - That they are not a pipe for fortune's finger To sound what stop she please. Give me that man That is not passion's slave, and I will wear him In my heart's core, ay, in my heart of heart, As I do thee.
Página 111 - ... much more the effect of use and practice. I do not deny that natural disposition may often give the first rise to it; but that never carries a man far without use and exercise, and it is practice alone that brings the powers of the mind as well as those of the body to their perfection.
Página 171 - Such a constitution having been established by a perfectly wise Creator, it may be easily supposed that it will remain unchangeable. His laws will not be altered for our convenience. We may obey them or disobey them, we may see them or not see them, we may be wise or unwise, but they will be rigidly and unalterably enforced. Thus must it ever be, until we have the power to resist the strength of omnipotence. Again ; it is sufficiently evident that the very constitution which God has established,...
Página 81 - O'erlooked and unemployed fell sick and died. Then study languished, emulation slept, And virtue fled. The schools became a scene Of solemn farce, where Ignorance in stilts, His cap well lined with logic not his own, With parrot tongue performed the scholar's part, Proceeding soon a graduated dunce.
Página 91 - Human happiness has no perfect security but freedom; freedom none but virtue; virtue, none but knowledge; and neither freedom, nor virtue, nor knowledge has any vigor, or immortal hope, except in the principles of the Christian faith, and in the sanctions of the Christian religion.
Página 101 - Talents angel-bright, If wanting worth, are shining instruments In false Ambition's hand, to finish faults Illustrious, and give Infamy renown.
Página 96 - tis found. Amongst your friends, amongst your foes On Christian or on Heathen ground ; The flower 's divine where'er it grows, Neglect the prickles and assume the rose.
Página xvii - That the business of teaching should be performed by those who have studied the subject of instruction as a profession. Therefore, Resolved, That there ought to be at least one seminary in each state, devoted exclusively to the education of teachers ; and that this seminary should be authorized to confer appropriate degrees.
Página 77 - Must rise from Individual to the Whole. Self-love but serves the virtuous mind to wake, As the small pebble stirs the peaceful lake; The centre mov'd, a circle straight succeeds, Another still, and still another spreads; Friend, parent, neighbour, first it will embrace; His country next; and next all human race; Wide and more wide, th...
Página 171 - His laws will not be altered, for our convenience. We may obey them or disobey them, we may see them or not see them, we may be wise or unwise, but they will be rigidly and unalterably enforced. Thus must it ever be, until we have the power to resist the strength of omnipotence. Again ; it is sufficiently evident that the very constitution which God has established, is, with infinite wisdom and benevolence, devised for just such a being, physical, intellectual, and moral, as man. By obedience to...