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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Nor let people of rank flatter themselves that ignorance will keep their inferiors
more dutiful , and in a greater subjection to them ; for surely there must be danger
that it will have a contrary effect under a free government such as ours , and in a ...
Nor let people of rank flatter themselves that ignorance will keep their inferiors
more dutiful , and in a greater subjection to them ; for surely there must be danger
that it will have a contrary effect under a free government such as ours , and in a ...
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In proof of this , I do not refer merely to the fact , that more power has been gained
over the agents of nature , and that they have been made to yield a greater
amount of human happiness to the human race , within the last one hundred
years ...
In proof of this , I do not refer merely to the fact , that more power has been gained
over the agents of nature , and that they have been made to yield a greater
amount of human happiness to the human race , within the last one hundred
years ...
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There are several good reasons why fewer crimes should be committed where
there is a greater number of persons who can read and write . The fact of a
population being more instructed , supposes it to be in more easy circumstances ,
less ...
There are several good reasons why fewer crimes should be committed where
there is a greater number of persons who can read and write . The fact of a
population being more instructed , supposes it to be in more easy circumstances ,
less ...
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Usage has given to men a power over boys which it has not given to men over
men ; and this power , as it is proportionally greater , and under comparatively
little control , requires the greater caution in its exercise . But it is proposed to ...
Usage has given to men a power over boys which it has not given to men over
men ; and this power , as it is proportionally greater , and under comparatively
little control , requires the greater caution in its exercise . But it is proposed to ...
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... or Monitorial System of Instruction . The verification of an assertion like this
would evince in him who should so make it good the possession of even greater
power than Archimedes would have displayed had he found a place whence he.
... or Monitorial System of Instruction . The verification of an assertion like this
would evince in him who should so make it good the possession of even greater
power than Archimedes would have displayed had he found a place whence he.
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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...
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| Título | 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 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, Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) |
| Colaborador | Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) |
| Editor | C. Knight, 1836 |
| Procedencia del original | la Biblioteca Pública de Nueva York |
| Digitalizado | 6 Oct 2006 |
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