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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... thought , 3 - consideration of blindness , 3- how it is viewed by the infidel , 4 - the apparent imperfections of nature's works do not exist alone that man may lament them , 4 - inequality among created things , 5 - the brain should be ...
... thought , 3 - consideration of blindness , 3- how it is viewed by the infidel , 4 - the apparent imperfections of nature's works do not exist alone that man may lament them , 4 - inequality among created things , 5 - the brain should be ...
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... thought , how to be established , 97— how made interesting , 98 — precocity , 99 — habit , 99 — evils of changing ... thoughts in their own words , 110— books for reading and study adapted to the capacities of children , 111 - they ...
... thought , how to be established , 97— how made interesting , 98 — precocity , 99 — habit , 99 — evils of changing ... thoughts in their own words , 110— books for reading and study adapted to the capacities of children , 111 - they ...
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... thought , especially in the investigation of a new and philosophical subject . But there is a yet greater difficulty , that when errors are discovered , or enlarged views acquired , one must continue to use words and figures , which ...
... thought , especially in the investigation of a new and philosophical subject . But there is a yet greater difficulty , that when errors are discovered , or enlarged views acquired , one must continue to use words and figures , which ...
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... thought would induce one to conclude , that this would naturally be the case ; a mo- ment's observation convinces one that it is so . Now , I have found among them , some of the most pious , intelligent and disinterested beings I ever ...
... thought would induce one to conclude , that this would naturally be the case ; a mo- ment's observation convinces one that it is so . Now , I have found among them , some of the most pious , intelligent and disinterested beings I ever ...
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... thought a similar one might be well placed over some schools or colleges , " the world is too much taught . " I mean that children learn too much by rote , and exercise the mind too little . They learn merely words and ideas of others ...
... thought a similar one might be well placed over some schools or colleges , " the world is too much taught . " I mean that children learn too much by rote , and exercise the mind too little . They learn merely words and ideas of others ...
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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...