The Teacher's Manual: Being an Exposition of an Efficient and Economical System of Education, Suited to the Wants of a Free PeopleMarsh, Capen, Lyon, and Webb, 1840 - 263 páginas |
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... figures as best he may . And even in those schools where it is taught , the subject is passed over , too rapidly ... figures at a time , he should be accustomed to take from two to five figures at once ; for , unless he can do this with ...
... figures as best he may . And even in those schools where it is taught , the subject is passed over , too rapidly ... figures at a time , he should be accustomed to take from two to five figures at once ; for , unless he can do this with ...
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... figures used in the old - fashioned way , ought also to be adopted . The subject of decimal fractions is treated of , separ- ately from that of whole numbers , in all our treatises on arithmetic , and in an advanced section of the book ...
... figures used in the old - fashioned way , ought also to be adopted . The subject of decimal fractions is treated of , separ- ately from that of whole numbers , in all our treatises on arithmetic , and in an advanced section of the book ...
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... figure in the number would be decreased or increased , tenfold , a hundredfold , a thou- sandfold , & c . Finally , the reason should be given , for calling the figures , to the right of the units , fractions , and decimal fractions ...
... figure in the number would be decreased or increased , tenfold , a hundredfold , a thou- sandfold , & c . Finally , the reason should be given , for calling the figures , to the right of the units , fractions , and decimal fractions ...
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... figures of the same denomina- tion are placed over each other , because it is most conve- nient , as those differing in denomination cannot be added together . For instance , if it be proposed to add 234 , 156 , and 798 together , we ...
... figures of the same denomina- tion are placed over each other , because it is most conve- nient , as those differing in denomination cannot be added together . For instance , if it be proposed to add 234 , 156 , and 798 together , we ...
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... figure from the right hand . Again : suppose that the multiplier , instead of 842 , should have been 8.42 ; then we shall have multiplied by a number 100 times too large ; consequently , our product , being also 100 times too large ...
... figure from the right hand . Again : suppose that the multiplier , instead of 842 , should have been 8.42 ; then we shall have multiplied by a number 100 times too large ; consequently , our product , being also 100 times too large ...
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acquired ALONZO POTTER animals arrangement Arts attention blackboard central school CHAPTER character child commenced common course decimals denominator discipline district divide division divisor duty effect Encaustic Painting equal evil exercise faculties feel female figures fractions give greatest common divisor habits important improvement integers Intellectual Education JACOB BIGELOW Jared Sparks knowledge least common multiple lesson letters manner means ment mental arithmetic metic mind mode moral multiplying Nature ness never object observation orthography parents practice present primary schools principles proper Pump punishment pupils questions quotient reading remarks ROBERT RANTOUL ROYAL ROBBINS scholars schoolhouse Sebastian Cabot Seminary soon sound stove sufficient SUNDAY.-The teach teacher temper thing tion town Vegetable virtue vulgar fraction WARREN BURTON Wheel whole number words writing wrong young youth
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Página 117 - To some secure and more than mortal height, That liberates and exempts me from them all. It turns submitted to my view, turns round With all its generations ; I behold The tumult, and am still.
Página 117 - That liberates and exempts me from them all. It turns submitted to my view, turns round With all its generations ; I behold The tumult, and am still. The sound of war Has lost its terrors ere it reaches me ; Grieves, but alarms me not.
Página 51 - I shall detain you now no longer in the demonstration of what we should not do, but straight conduct you to a hillside, where I will point you out the right path of a virtuous and noble education ; laborious, indeed, at the first ascent, but else so smooth, so green, so full of goodly prospect, and melodious sounds on every side, that the harp of Orpheus was not more charming.
Página 215 - I care not, fortune, what you me deny : You cannot rob me of free nature's grace ; You cannot shut the windows of the sky, Through which Aurora shows her brightening face ; You cannot bar my constant feet to trace The woods and lawns, by living stream, at eve Let health my nerves and finer fibres brace, And I their toys to the great children leave : Of fancy, reason, virtue, nought can me bereave.
Página 117 - He sucks intelligence in every clime, And spreads the honey of his deep research At his return — a rich repast for me. He travels, and I too. I tread his deck, Ascend his topmast, through his peering eyes Discover countries, with a kindred heart Suffer his woes, and share in his escapes ; While fancy, like the finger of a clock, Runs the great circuit, and is still at home.
Página 211 - Tia a lesson you should heed, Try, try again ; If at first you don't succeed, Try, try again ; Then your courage should appear, For, if you will persevere, You will conquer, never fear ; Try, try again.
Página 245 - Lacedemonians, that honest people, more virtuous than polite, rose up all to a man, and with the greatest respect received him among them. The Athenians being suddenly touched with a sense of the Spartan virtue, and their own degeneracy, gave a thunder of applause ; and. the old man cried out, " The Athenians understand what is good, but the Lacedemonians practise it
Página 245 - Athens, during a public representation of some play exhibited in honour of the commonwealth, that an old gentleman came too late for a place suitable to his age and quality. Many of the young gentlemen, who observed the difficulty and confusion he was in, made signs to him that they would accommodate him, if he came where they sat.
Página 3 - I call therefore a complete and generous education, that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war.
Página 226 - Accustom your children (said he) constantly to this; if a thing happened at one window, and they, when relating it, say that it happened at another, do not let it pass, but instantly check them; you do not know where deviation from truth will end.