The Art of Study: A Manual for Teachers and Students of the Science and the Art of Teaching

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American Book Company, 1900 - 266 σελίδες
 

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Σελίδα 207 - show them a sign from heaven. " He answered and said unto them, When it is evening, ye say, It will be fair weather, for the sky is red. And in the morning, It will be foul weather to-day, for the sky is red and lowering.
Σελίδα 162 - precaution so to regulate the two opposing powers that the one may have a series of uninterrupted successes, until repetition has fortified it to such a degree as to cope with the opposition under any circumstances. This is the theoretically best career of moral progress, not often realized in practice.
Σελίδα 244 - ours. We are of the ruminating kind, and it is not enough to cram ourselves with a great load of collections; unless we chew them over again, they will not give us strength and nourishment.
Σελίδα 162 - The peculiarity of the moral habits, contradistinguishing them from the intellectual acquisitions, is the presence of two hostile powers, one to be gradually raised into the ascendant over the other. It is necessary, above all things, in such a situation, if possible, never to lose a battle,
Σελίδα 155 - We read that Jacob served seven years for Rachel, and they seemed unto him but a few days for the love he had for her.
Σελίδα 244 - Those who have read of everything, are thought to understand everything too ; but it is not always so. Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge ; it is thinking makes
Σελίδα 244 - Books and reading are looked upon to be the great helps of the understanding, and instruments of knowledge, as it must be allowed that they are ; and yet I beg leave to question whether these do not prove an hindrance to many, and keep several bookish men from attaining to solid and true knowledge.
Σελίδα 60 - theorem : the square described on the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle is equal to the sum of the squares described on the
Σελίδα 140 - and crisis of his character. It represents the high-water mark of his powers, and serves thereafter as an ideal pattern for his self-imitation. The teacher who never rouses this sort of pugnacious excitement in his pupils falls short of one of his best forms of usefulness.
Σελίδα 140 - and is essential to a spirited and enterprising character. We have of late been hearing much of the philosophy of tenderness in education ; ' interest ' must be assiduously awakened in everything, difficulties must be smoothed away. Soft pedagogics have taken the place

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