Manual of Natural EducationBobbs-Merrill, 1916 - 216 σελίδες |
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adolescent period Æneid amuse anagrams animals aquarium baby ball beautiful thoughts believe bells Billy Walsh birds blocks bounce boys Bradley's villages Candoit cardboard celluloid celluloid dolls chil child count curios delight develop dictionary Doctor dren Edwin Markham escutcheon Esperanto eurhythmics facts fear girl give globe grammar happy idea interest jingle keep knowledge language Latin letters lives Louise Brigham's toy maps minds with beautiful mother Mount Everest Natural Education never Noah's ark numbers and musical nursery O'Shea objects paper parcheesi parents Peter Rabbit Philander Claxton piano plasticine sand-box scrap books sing smile Sonora spelling SQUARE stories strings striving taught teach children teachers tell things tion told tongue tree typewriter verb Victrola Victrola or Sonora WINIFRED SACKVILLE STONER Winifred to teach Winifred's words write young
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Σελίδα 28 - us yet know, for none of us have yet been taught in early youth, what fairy palaces we may build of beautiful thought — proof against all adversity. Bright fancies, satisfied memories, noble histories, faithful sayings, treasure-houses of precious and restful thoughts, which care cannot disturb, nor pain make gloomy, nor poverty take away from us— houses built without hands, for our souls to live in.
Σελίδα 17 - A circle is a plane figure bounded by a curved line, every point of which is equally distant from a point within called the center.
Σελίδα 10 - Politeness is to do and say The kindest thing in the kindest way; and by this definition the population of these Islands ranks high among the peoples of the earth.
Σελίδα 28 - There is nothing in all the world so important as children, nothing so interesting. If ever you wish to go in for philanthropy, if you ever wish to be of any real use in the world, do something for children.
Σελίδα 26 - There seems to be no difference of opinion in the minds of men and women who have studied rational eugenics and sociology concerning the necessity of beginning to work with the preceding generation in order to have strong and healthy children and of teaching parents that quality is better than quantity, and that a large number of underfed children or of mental and physical inferiority means race suicide, while the reverse means race preservation. I cannot defend my attitude better than by stating...
Σελίδα 183 - Sprachen nicht kennt weisst nicht von seiner eigenen" (A man who has no acquaintance with foreign languages knows nothing of his own).
Σελίδα 2 - I hold every man a debtor to his profession. — Bacon. DEER "The deer's a mighty useful beast From Petersburg to Tennyson For while he lives he lopes around And when he's dead he's venison." — Ellis Parker Butler. DEGREES A young theologian named Fiddle Refused to accept his degree; "For," said he, "'tis enough to be Fiddle, Without being Fiddle DD" DEMOCRACY "Why are you so vexed, Irma?
Σελίδα 29 - Answers Every Question a Child Can Ask Why is the sea never still? Where does the wind begin? What makes an echo? Why does a ball bounce? Why can't we see in the dark ? What are eyebrows for? Why are tears salt? Why does the kettle sing? What makes a fog? Where do thoughts come from ? Why does a stick float? And Thousands of Others What? Where?
Σελίδα 177 - Vincit amor patrite, the love of our country prevails. Vivat regina, long live the queen. Vox populi, vox Dei, the voice of the people is the voice of God. Veritatis simplex oratio est, the language of truth is simple. Vultus est index animi, the countenance is the index of the mind.
Σελίδα 67 - The winds picks it up and carries it high into the air. The air currents make it fly first in one direction and then another. Such toys as Little Red Riding Hood, the Three Bears, the Three Goats Gruff, and the Three Little Pigs place before the child a clear image of the story he is telling, causing him to forget his self-consciousness and in no way hindering his imagination. They help him to picture more clearly in his mind the stories and to reproduce them in words and play more intelligently....