The Principles and Practice of Teaching and Class Management

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A.M. Holden, 1894 - 462 σελίδες

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Σελίδα 18 - He was particularly efficient in promoting the interests of the former, and, recognizing that " the true university of these days is a collection of books," devoted his energies to the founding of an adequate library for that institution.
Σελίδα 355 - Multiplying or dividing both terms of a fraction by the same number does not alter the value of the fraction.
Σελίδα 13 - Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking makes what we read 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 399 - I knew a very wise man so much of Sir Chr — 's sentiment, that he believed if a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws of a nation.
Σελίδα 105 - A man being asked how many sheep he had, said that he had them in two pastures ; in one pasture he had eight ; that threefourths of these were just one-third of what he had in the other. How many were there in the other ?
Σελίδα 229 - A more lying, roundabout, puzzle-headed delusion than that by which we CONFUSE the clear instincts of truth in our accursed systems of spelling, was never concocted by the father of falsehood.
Σελίδα 420 - A sentence should be powerful in its substantives, choice and discreet in its adjectives, nicely correct in its verbs ; not a word that could be added, nor one which the most fastidious would venture to suppress ; in order, lucid ; in sequence, logical ; in method, perspicuous.
Σελίδα 297 - Education for their consideration, that one great fault in the system of instruction in the schools of the country lies in the want of proper teaching in the art of writing. The great bulk of the...
Σελίδα 437 - This is indeed something worth being enthusiastic for. To convince boys that intellectual growth is noble, and intellectual labour happy, that they are travelling on no purposeless errand, mounting higher every step of the way, and may as truly enjoy the toil that lifts them above their former selves, as they enjoy a race or a climb ; to help the culture of their minds by every faculty of moral force, of physical vigour, of memory, of fancy, of humour...
Σελίδα 420 - ... and withal, there must be a sense of felicity about it, declaring it to be the product of a happy moment, so that you feel...

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