Elements of tuition, Parte 3Rivingtons, 1815 - 446 páginas |
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Página v
... period , its fitness for the instruction of the lower orders of the com munity was acknowledged by the Society for bettering the Condition of the Poor , of which your Lordship is President . In their reports was inserted the first ...
... period , its fitness for the instruction of the lower orders of the com munity was acknowledged by the Society for bettering the Condition of the Poor , of which your Lordship is President . In their reports was inserted the first ...
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... period , could not have been relied upon . With such expectations , and after delays and interruptions , known to your Lordship , the author feels peculiar satisfaction in being , at length , able to present this imperfect Essay ...
... period , could not have been relied upon . With such expectations , and after delays and interruptions , known to your Lordship , the author feels peculiar satisfaction in being , at length , able to present this imperfect Essay ...
Página xxii
... period , I have as far as my time would admit , consulted the writings of those , who have preceded me ; and it has been my constant endeavour to make use of their words , when- ever I have found their doctrines calculated to give ...
... period , I have as far as my time would admit , consulted the writings of those , who have preceded me ; and it has been my constant endeavour to make use of their words , when- ever I have found their doctrines calculated to give ...
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... period , perceptible in the moral and intellectual world . Though the greatest of the discoveries , which relate to the inanimate , or brute creation , fall in- finitely short in value and importance , of the least of those , which go ...
... period , perceptible in the moral and intellectual world . Though the greatest of the discoveries , which relate to the inanimate , or brute creation , fall in- finitely short in value and importance , of the least of those , which go ...
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... period , when the Madras Asylum was esta- blished , and the author took upon himself the superintendance of that institution . In the discharge of this office , his accidental disclosure of a power of the human mind , which had , till ...
... period , when the Madras Asylum was esta- blished , and the author took upon himself the superintendance of that institution . In the discharge of this office , his accidental disclosure of a power of the human mind , which had , till ...
Términos y frases comunes
application arrangement ascer beginning boys capacity Cardinal Wolsey cation CHAP CHAPTER Chrysippus classical construing corporal punishment course of study declension decline difficulty diligence discipline discovery easy effect emulation English declension English schools Epistle etiam Eton Grammar Euclid's Elements examples exer exercise experience follow former genders of nouns gram grammar schools habits hæc hand improvement initiatory John Colet knowledge labour Latin grammar Latin language laws learned lessons Lilye Lilye's Grammar Madras Asylum Madras school Madras system manner master means memory ment method mind mode novice object orders of children original parent parsing perfect instruction practice present preterites and supines principle proceed progress proposed public schools punishment pupils quæ quam QUIN Quintilian quod regard rendered rudiments says scholar self-tuition shew struction supines of verbs syntax system of education task taught teachers teaching thing tion translation tuition understanding vocables words writers youth
Pasajes populares
Página 59 - An Experiment in Education, made at the Male Asylum of Madras ; suggesting a System by which a School or Family may teach itself under the Superintendence of the Master or Parent.
Página 316 - Hence appear the many mistakes which have made learning generally so unpleasing and so unsuccessful ; first, we do amiss to spend seven or eight years merely in scraping together so much miserable Latin and Greek as might be learned otherwise easily and delightfully in one year.
Página 88 - I soon found that, if ever the school was to be brought into good order, taught according to that method and system which is essential to every public institution, it must be done either by instructing ushers in the economy of such a seminary, or by youths from among the pupils trained for the purpose. For a long time I kept both of these objects in view; but was in the end compelled, after the most painful efforts of perseverance, to abandon entirely the former, and adhere solely to the latter.
Página iii - I shall detain you no longer in the demonstration of what we should not do, but straight conduct you to a hill-side, 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 165 - Beating then, and all other sorts of slavish and corporal punishments, are not the discipline fit to be used in the education of those we would have wise, good, and ingenuous men; and therefore very rarely to be applied, and that only in great occasions, and cases of extremity.
Página 105 - Compiled and set forth for the bringing up of all those that intend to attain to the knowledge of the Latin tongue.
Página 165 - The usual lazy and short way by chastisement and the rod, which is the only instrument of government that tutors generally know or ever think of, is the most unfit of any to be used in education...
Página 177 - Whereunto if afterwards there might be added the right helps of true art and learning (which helps, I must plainly confess, this age of the world, carrying the name of a learned age, doth neither much know nor...
Página 84 - ... together. The scholar ever finds his own level not only in his class, but also in the ranks of the school, being promoted or degraded from place to place, or class to class, according to his proficiency.
Página 89 - ... as to qualify him for discharging the office of a teacher of this school, I had formed a man who could earn a much higher salary, than was allowed at this charity, and on far easier terms...