 | National Association for the Promotion of Social Science (Great Britain) - 1865 - 766 páginas
...find little or nothing of all this. We should find highly accomplished most painstaking governesses ; here and there an apt pupil advancing rapidly under...governesses — how few of the teachers in our girls' boarding schools — have had any kind of specific training for their work ! And if more of them had... | |
 | 1878 - 620 páginas
...estimate of the relative value of the several kinds of acquirement ; a reference to effect, rather than to solid worth; a tendency to fill or adorn, rather than to strengthen the mind.' After this declaration we may turn with greater confidence to the more favourable side of the Commissioners'... | |
 | 1878 - 630 páginas
...estimate of the relative value of the several kinds of acquirement ; a reference to effect, rather than to solid worth ; a tendency to fill or adorn, rather than to strengthen the mind.' After this declaration we may turn with greater confidence to the more favourable side of the Commissioners'... | |
 | 1878 - 646 páginas
...estimate of the relative value of the sever*! kinds of acquirement ; a reference to effect, rather than to solid worth ; a tendency to fill or adorn, rather than to strengthen the mind.' After this declaration we may turn with greater confidence to the more favourable side of the Commissioners'... | |
 | 1893 - 736 páginas
...girls, however small their natural taste or talent for the study — ' a reference to effect rather than to solid worth, a tendency to fill, or adorn, rather than strengthen the mind,' the authorities of the University of Cambridge were prevailed on, in 1863, to... | |
 | Alice Zimmern - 1898 - 286 páginas
...false estimate of the relative value of the several kinds of acquirement, a reference to effect rather than to solid worth, a tendency to fill or adorn rather than strengthen the mind.' There is unanimous testimony as to the undue amount of time given to accomplishments,... | |
 | Association of Head Mistresses (Great Britain) - 1911 - 342 páginas
...false estimate of the relative value of the several kinds of acquirements, a reference to effect rather than to solid worth, a tendency to fill or adorn rather than to strengthen the mind. There is weighty evidence to the effect that the essential capacity for learning is the same, or nearly... | |
 | 1878 - 862 páginas
...estimate of the relative value of the several kinds of acquirement ; a reference to effect, rather than to solid worth ; a tendency to fill or adorn, rather than to strengthen the mind. • In the distribution of prizes at the North London Collegiate and Camden Street Schools for girls... | |
 | Sir Michael Sadler, Jack Sislian - 2004 - 352 páginas
...false estimate of the relative value of the several kinds of acquirement, a reference to effect rather than to solid worth, a tendency to fill or adorn rather than to strengthen the mind." The Commissioners recorded their opinion that "the essential capacity for learning is the same or nearly... | |
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... an inferior set of school books, a vast deal of dry uninteresting taskwork, rules put into the memory with no explanation of their principles; no system of examination worthy of the name; a very false estimate of the relative value of the several... 