The Graded School: A Graded Course of Instruction for Public Schools: with Copious Practical Directions to Teachers

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A. S. Barnes & Burr, 1862 - 200 σελίδες

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Σελίδα 41 - Children should be led to make their own investigations, and to draw their own inferences. They should be told as little as possible, and induced to discover as much as possible.
Σελίδα 95 - He told him, that he had early laid it down as a fixed rule to do his best on every occasion, and in every company ; to impart whatever he knew . in the most forcible language he could put it in ; and that by constant practice, and never suffering any careless expressions to escape him, or attempting to deliver his thoughts without arranging them in the clearest manner, it became habitual to him.
Σελίδα 94 - Sir Joshua Reynolds once asked him by what means he had attained his extraordinary accuracy and flow of language. He told him that he had early laid it down as a fixed rule to do his best on every occasion, and in every cpmpany, to impart whatever he knew in the most forcible language he could...
Σελίδα 158 - Scratch the green rind of a sapling, or wantonly twist it in the soil, and a scarred or crooked oak will tell of the act for centuries to come.
Σελίδα 144 - We are not to look for any new discovery or invention that shall supersede the necessity of mental toil; we are not to desire it. If we had but to supplicate some kind genius, and he would at once endow us with all the knowledge in the universe, the gift would prove a curse to us, and not a blessing. We must have the discipline of acquiring knowledge, and in the manner established by the Author of our being.
Σελίδα 194 - National Education in Europe: Being an Account of the Organization, Administration, Instruction, and Statistics of Public Schools of different grades in the principal States.
Σελίδα 150 - I can solve the problem," he said with emphatic gesture,
Σελίδα 144 - No man ever yet made intellectual progress without intellectual labor. It is this alone that can strengthen and invigorate the noble faculties with which we are endowed. However much we may regret that we do not live a century later, because we cannot have the benefit of the...
Σελίδα 150 - He accordingly set himself at work in earnest, and devoted several hours to the unsolved problem ; but still the desired result was as far from his grasp as ever. Mortifying as the alternative was, he decided at length to go to one of the teachers of the school, and ask for assistance.
Σελίδα 159 - To excel as л primary teacher requires peculiar natural gifts, a thorough acquaintance with the first principles of knowledge, special fondness for young children, and an abiding consciousness that there is really no higher department of useful labor than that of giving direction to the first efforts of minds that are opening to an endless existence. There is no other grade of schools in which the personal character of the teacher is so directly felt, as in the Primary. In the Grammar School, lessons...

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