Letters from HofwylLongman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1842 - 372 σελίδες |
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Σελίδα 69 - I know nothing that could, in this view, be said better, than " do unto others as ye would that others should do unto you...
Σελίδα 211 - Experience has taught me that indolence in young persons is so directly opposite to their natural disposition to activity, that unless it is the consequence of bad education, it is almost invariably connected with some constitutional defect.
Σελίδα 175 - A well-arranged family circle is the place, where each member, by participating in the other's joys and sorrows, pleasures and misfortunes, by teaching, advice, consolation, and example, is inspired with sentiments of single-mindedness, of charity, of mutual confidence, of noble thoughts, of high feelings, and of virtue. " In such a circle can a true religious sense take the firmest and the deepest root. Here it is that the principles of Christian feeling can...
Σελίδα 20 - the individual, independent activity of the pupil is of much greater importance than the ordinary busy officiousness of many who assume the office of educators...
Σελίδα 156 - Buchsee, in which visit we were accompanied by M. De Fellenberg. What we learned from the conversation of this patriotic and high-minded man we cannot find space here to say. His words are better read in the establishments which he has founded, and which he superintends, and in the influence which his example and his precepts have had on the rest of Switzerland, and on other parts of Europe.
Σελίδα 20 - Instead of pursuing this course, we endeavour, by bestowing the utmost care upon the cultivation of the conscience, the understanding, and the judgment, to light up a torch in the mind of every pupil, which shall enable him to observe his own character, and shall set in the clearest light all the exterior objects which claim his attention. " A great variety of exereises of the body and the senses are employed to prepare our pupils for the fulfilment of their destination.
Σελίδα 192 - These circumstances, combined with the want of tact in reference to the affairs of common life, materially impaired his powers of usefulness as a practical instructor of youth. The rapid progress of his ideas rarely allowed him to execute his own plans; and...
Σελίδα 175 - ... as brothers, serves them with willingness whenever he can, treats all his race as one family, loves them, and God their father above all, how richly does such a one scatter blessings around ! What earnestness does he show in all his doings and conduct, what devotion especially does he display in the business of a teacher ! How differently from him does that master enter and leave his school, whose feelings are dead to a sense of piety, and whose heart never beats in unison with the joys of family...
Σελίδα 201 - To form such characters is more important than to produce mere scholars, however distinguished ; and this is the object on which the eye of the educator should be fixed, and to which every part of his instruction and discipline should be directed, if he means to fill the exalted office of being
Σελίδα 159 - ... excluding only the ancient languages and the more extensive courses of history and science. It is designed for the children of the middle classes of Switzerland — of farmers, men of business, mechanics, professional men, and persons in public employ, whose means do not allow them to furnish their children an education of accomplishments, and who do not wish to have them estranged from the simplicity of the paternal mansion and of their native village, by the comparative luxury which is necessary...