Lectures on School-keepingRichardson, Lord and Holbrook, 1829 - 135 páginas |
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Página 2 - District Clerk's Office. BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the seventh day of May, AD 1828, in the fifty-second year of the Independence of the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, SG Goodrich, of the said District, has deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as proprietor, in the words following, to wit...
Página 48 - ... this. The formation of character is not then a matter important in relation to this life only. The children with whom you are to be associated, are all the children of one great Creator. They are a part of His extensive kingdom. They are the subjects of His government, and are under the highest obligation to obey His wise and holy laws. He has given them such laws, and made such requirements of them, as are necessary for their happiness. He has enjoined upon them to ' Remember their Creator in...
Página 40 - MORAL Philosophy, Morality, Ethics, Casuistry, Natural Law, mean all the same thing ; namely, that science which teaches men their duty and the reasons of it.
Página 72 - For it is commonly true, that those who learn very easily, forget as easily, while those who learn slowly, remember what they have acquired. It is not unusual for the slow gains of the mechanic, to be eventually more productive than the rapid and golden streams of the merchant. If rewards are given at all, let them be ' rewards of merit,' and not rewards of intellectual capacity.
Página 14 - We see the magic influence of our schools, in the habits of industry, sobriety and order which prevail in the community ; in the cheerful obedience yielded to the laws, and in the acts of charity and benevolence, which are every day multiplied around us. Rarely have we seen a native of our state, paying his life to her violated laws,"* if his early years were spent in the schools of our land.
Página 104 - ... was very different from yours, as I see the effect on your feelings was very different from what was produced on mine. That miserable man, you at once perceive, is crazy. He has bundles of rags on his sled, which, perhaps, he values, though they can be of no service to him. You perceived he looked pale and emaciated ; he was so weak as scarcely to be able to draw his load. He is very poorly shielded from the cold of winter, and will very probably perish in the snow. Now tell me, my scholars,...
Página 26 - ... years, — to form a creature, the frailest and feeblest that heaven has made, into the intelligent and fearless sovereign of the whole animated creation, the interpreter and adorer and almost the representative of Divinity !" Many there are who enter upon the high employment of teaching a common school as a secondary object.
Página 4 - But let the character of the teachers be improved, and improvement in schools will follow of course. To accomplish this object, it is desirable that institutions should be established for educating teachers, where they should be taught not only the necessary branches of literature, but, be made acquainted with the science of teaching and the mode of governing a school with success. The general management of a school should be a subject of much study, before one engages in the employment of teaching,...