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 |
Dentro del libro
Resultados 1-5 de 31
Página 17
... formation of what may be considered TRA- DITION . The follies and vices of the surrounding world ; the superstitions of our Saxon and Norman ancestors ; nay , the dark blot of slavery , which stains 2 * WHO ARE OUR SCHOOLMASTERS ? 17.
... formation of what may be considered TRA- DITION . The follies and vices of the surrounding world ; the superstitions of our Saxon and Norman ancestors ; nay , the dark blot of slavery , which stains 2 * WHO ARE OUR SCHOOLMASTERS ? 17.
Página 32
... is true , our chemical works give us a list of some fifty or more substances , which are called elements ; but it is doubtful , whether any one of them really is so . They should be considered only 32 THE TEACHER'S MANUAL .
... is true , our chemical works give us a list of some fifty or more substances , which are called elements ; but it is doubtful , whether any one of them really is so . They should be considered only 32 THE TEACHER'S MANUAL .
Página 33
... considered only as elements , according to the present state of knowledge . Future discoveries will probably reduce the number , or totally change the whole list . But to return . Nature's mode of teaching is altogether analytic . She ...
... considered only as elements , according to the present state of knowledge . Future discoveries will probably reduce the number , or totally change the whole list . But to return . Nature's mode of teaching is altogether analytic . She ...
Página 43
... considered as units in the next higher , also for the same reason ; viz . , because ten of one de- nomination make one of the other . Why , then , should a distinction be made between addition of integers and of decimals , when there is ...
... considered as units in the next higher , also for the same reason ; viz . , because ten of one de- nomination make one of the other . Why , then , should a distinction be made between addition of integers and of decimals , when there is ...
Página 46
... 44 dollars , and 368 thousandths , ( or mills ; ) or , finally , as 10 dollars make an eagle , ( so call- ed , from an eagle being the ensign , or arms of the United States , ) the 44 dollars may be considered as 46 THE TEACHER'S MANUAL .
... 44 dollars , and 368 thousandths , ( or mills ; ) or , finally , as 10 dollars make an eagle , ( so call- ed , from an eagle being the ensign , or arms of the United States , ) the 44 dollars may be considered as 46 THE TEACHER'S MANUAL .
Otras ediciones - Ver todo
Términos y frases comunes
acquired ALONZO POTTER animals arrangement attention blackboard called central school CHAPTER character child commence common consequently course decimal fractions decimals denominator discipline district divide division divisor duty effect equal error evil exercise faculties feel female figures fractions give greatest common divisor habits happiness important improvement injurious integers JACOB BIGELOW Jared Sparks kind knowledge least common multiple lesson letters manner means ment mental arithmetic metic mind mode moral multiplying Nature ness never object observation orthography parents practice primary schools principles proper properly punishment pupils questions quotient reading ROBERT RANTOUL ROYAL ROBBINS scholars schoolhouse Sebastian Cabot seminaries soon sound stove sufficient SUNDAY.-The teach teacher temper thing tion town virtue vulgar fraction WARREN BURTON whole number words writing wrong young
Pasajes populares
Página 97 - Therefore speak I to them in parables, because seeing they see not, and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand...
Página 127 - 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 257 - 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 257 - 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 109 - You make him a denizen of all nations, a contemporary of all ages. The world has been created for him. It is hardly possible but the character should take a higher and better tone from the constant habit of associating in thought with a class of thinkers, to say the least of it, above the average of humanity.
Página 227 - 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 126 - Tis pleasant through the loopholes of retreat To peep at such a world ; to see the stir Of the great Babel, and not feel the crowd...
Página 232 - What reward ! A large comprehensive soul, well purged from vulgar fears, and perturbations, and prejudices; able to comprehend and interpret the works of man — of God. A rich flourishing cultivated mind, pregnant with inexhaustible stores of entertainment and reflection. A perpetual spring of fresh ideas — and the conscious dignity of superior intelligence. Good Heaven...
Página 112 - The poet's or historian's page, by one Made vocal for the amusement of the rest...