The Schoolmaster: Essays on Practical Education, Selected from the Works of Ascham, Milton, Locke, and Butler; from the Quarterly Journal of Education; and from Lectures Delivered Before the American Institute of Instruction |
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On this event , Elizabeth is said to have declared , that she would sooner have thrown ten thousand pounds into the sea than lost her tutor Ascham ; a saying which is of course admired , as every thing belonging to that able and ...
On this event , Elizabeth is said to have declared , that she would sooner have thrown ten thousand pounds into the sea than lost her tutor Ascham ; a saying which is of course admired , as every thing belonging to that able and ...
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Which charge lasteth not long , but until the scholar be made able to go to the University , to proceed in logic , rhetoric , and other kind of learning . “ Yet if my Schoolmaster , for love he beareth to his scholar , shall teach him ...
Which charge lasteth not long , but until the scholar be made able to go to the University , to proceed in logic , rhetoric , and other kind of learning . “ Yet if my Schoolmaster , for love he beareth to his scholar , shall teach him ...
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... his present lesson , until the scholar by himself be able to fetch out of his grammar every rule for every example , so as the grammar book be ever in the scholar's hand , and also used of him as a dictionary for every present use .
... his present lesson , until the scholar by himself be able to fetch out of his grammar every rule for every example , so as the grammar book be ever in the scholar's hand , and also used of him as a dictionary for every present use .
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66 so much weigh what either of them is able to do now , as what either of them is likely to do hereafter . For this I know , not only by reading of books in my study , but also by experience of life abroad in the world , that those ...
66 so much weigh what either of them is able to do now , as what either of them is likely to do hereafter . For this I know , not only by reading of books in my study , but also by experience of life abroad in the world , that those ...
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And even so in a manner these instruments a man's wit so soft and smooth , so tender and quaisy , that they be less able to brook strong and tough study . Wits be not sharpened , but rather dulled , * and made blunt with such sweet ...
And even so in a manner these instruments a man's wit so soft and smooth , so tender and quaisy , that they be less able to brook strong and tough study . Wits be not sharpened , but rather dulled , * and made blunt with such sweet ...
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Página 182 - ... bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world : all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power : both Angels and men and creatures of what condition soever, though each in different sort and manner, yet all with uniform consent, admiring her as the mother of their peace and joy.
Página 40 - I wis all their sport in the park is but a shadow to that pleasure that I find in Plato. Alas, good folk, they never felt what true pleasure meant.
Página 41 - ... weeping because whatsoever I do else but learning is full of grief, trouble, fear, and whole misliking unto me. And thus my book hath been so much my pleasure, and bringeth daily to me more pleasure and more, that in respect of it all other pleasures in very deed be but trifles and troubles unto me.
Página 117 - ... that sublime art which in Aristotle's poetics, in Horace, and the Italian commentaries of Castelvetro,18 Tasso, Mazzoni, and others, teaches what the laws are of a true epic poem, what of a dramatic, what of a lyric, what decorum is, which is the grand masterpiece to observe.
Página 110 - ... now on the sudden transported under another climate, to be tossed and turmoiled with their unballasted wits in fathomless and unquiet deeps of controversy, do for the most part grow into hatred and contempt of learning, mocked and deluded all this while with ragged notions and babblements, while they expected worthy and delightful knowledge...
Página 116 - Logic, therefore, so much as is useful, is to be referred to this due place, with all her well-couched heads and topics, until it be time to open her contracted palm into a graceful and ornate rhetoric taught out of the rule of Plato, Aristotle, Phalereus, Cicero, Hermogenes, Longinus.
Página 121 - HSrtlib, you have a general view in writing, as your desire was, of that which at several times I had discoursed with you concerning the best and noblest way of education ; not beginning, as some have done, from the cradle, which yet might be worth many considerations, if brevity had not been my scope.
Página 126 - As the strength of the body lies chiefly in being able to endure hardships, so also does that of the mind. And the great principle and foundation of all virtue and worth is placed in this: That a man is able to deny himself his own desires, cross his own inclinations, and purely follow what reason directs as best, though the appetite lean the other way.
Página 108 - The end then of learning is, to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright...
Página 109 - I deem it to be an old error of Universities not yet well recovered from the scholastic grossness of barbarous ages, that instead of beginning with arts most easy, and those be such as are most obvious to the sense, they present their young unmatriculated novices at first coming with the most intellective abstractions of logic and metaphysics...