The Limitations of the Educational Theory of John Locke Especially for the Christian TeacherÉditeur inconnu, 1920 - 148 páginas |
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... necessary to our business and happiness . " How neces- sary , " he says , " health is to our business and happiness ; and how requisite a strong constitution , able to endure hardships and fatigue , is , to one that will make any figure ...
... necessary to our business and happiness . " How neces- sary , " he says , " health is to our business and happiness ; and how requisite a strong constitution , able to endure hardships and fatigue , is , to one that will make any figure ...
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... necessary for them to do , " he says , " settle in them by an indispensable practice , as often as occasion returns ; and if it be possible make occasions . This will beget habits in them , which being once established , ope- rate of ...
... necessary for them to do , " he says , " settle in them by an indispensable practice , as often as occasion returns ; and if it be possible make occasions . This will beget habits in them , which being once established , ope- rate of ...
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... necessary . Since virtuous conduct and right human life demand obedience to the dictates of right reason , it is all impor- tant to set the child's mind aright from the earliest dawn of reason . Locke would have a father seldom ...
... necessary . Since virtuous conduct and right human life demand obedience to the dictates of right reason , it is all impor- tant to set the child's mind aright from the earliest dawn of reason . Locke would have a father seldom ...
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... necessary for them ; and that it is not out of caprice , passion , or fancy , that you command or forbid them anything . This they are capable of understanding ; and there is no virtue they should be excited to , nor fault they should ...
... necessary for them ; and that it is not out of caprice , passion , or fancy , that you command or forbid them anything . This they are capable of understanding ; and there is no virtue they should be excited to , nor fault they should ...
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... necessary to bridge the span that separates boyhood from manhood . " The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it : into which a young gentleman should be entered by degrees , as he can bear it ; and the earlier the ...
... necessary to bridge the span that separates boyhood from manhood . " The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it : into which a young gentleman should be entered by degrees , as he can bear it ; and the earlier the ...
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Página 21 - Art; and he that has found a way, how to keep up a Child's Spirit, easy, active and free; and yet, at the same time, to restrain him from many things he has a Mind to, and to draw him to things that are uneasy to him; he, I say, that knows how to reconcile these seeming Contradic15 tions, has, in my Opinion, got the true Secret of Education.
Página 32 - To write and speak correctly gives a grace, and gains a favourable attention to what one has to say ; and, since it is English that an English gentleman will have constant use of, that is the language he should chiefly cultivate, and wherein most care should be taken to polish and perfect his style.
Página 33 - If the use and end of right reasoning be to have right notions and a right judgment of things, to distinguish betwixt truth and falsehood, right and wrong, and to act accordingly; be sure not to let your son be bred up in the art and formality of disputing...
Página 126 - I have mentioned mathematics as a way to settle in the mind a habit of reasoning closely and in train ; not that I think it necessary that all men should be deep mathematicians, but that, having got the way of reasoning, which that study necessarily brings the mind to, they might be able to transfer it to other parts of knowledge, as they shall have occasion.
Página 57 - Learning must be had, but in the second Place, as subservient only to greater Qualities. Seek out somebody that may know how discreetly to frame his Manners : Place him in Hands where you may, as much as possible, secure his Innocence, cherish and nurse up the 25 good, and gently correct and weed out any bad Inclinations, and settle in him good Habits. This is the main Point, and this being provided for, Learning may be had into the Bargain, and that, as I think, at a very easy rate, by Methods that...
Página 61 - ... ourselves of the abilities and opportunities of doing that good we might have done with a meaner talent, which God thought sufficient for us by having denied us the strength to improve it to that pitch which men of stronger constitutions can attain to, we rob God of so much service, and our...
Página 113 - The things that, as far as our observation reaches, we constantly find to proceed regularly, we may conclude do act by a law set them ; but yet by a law, that we know not: whereby, though causes work steadily, and effects constantly flow from them, yet their connexions and dependencies being not discoverable in our ideas, we can have but an experimental knowledge of them.
Página 111 - And thus the real internal, but generally, in substances, unknown constitution of things, whereon their discoverable qualities depend, may be called their essence.
Página 43 - ... that he can do something which he could not do before; something, which gives him some power and real advantage above others who are ignorant of it.
Página 20 - This power is to be got and improved by custom, made easy and familiar by an early practice. If therefore I might be heard, I would advise, that, contrary to the ordinary way, children should be used to submit their desires, and go without their longings, even from their very cradles. The first thing they should learn to know, should be, that they were not to have anything, because it pleased them, but because it was thought fit for them.