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 should the laws of any private friendship have prevailed with me to divide thus or transpose my former thoughts ; but that I see those aims , those actions which have won you with me the esteem of a person sent hither by some good ...
Nor should the laws of any private friendship have prevailed with me to divide thus or transpose my former thoughts ; but that I see those aims , those actions which have won you with me the esteem of a person sent hither by some good ...
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And what is it , to govern his actions and direct his conduct by such motives as these ? What is it , I say , but to cherish that principle in him , which it is our business to root out and destroy ? And , therefore , I cannot think any ...
And what is it , to govern his actions and direct his conduct by such motives as these ? What is it , I say , but to cherish that principle in him , which it is our business to root out and destroy ? And , therefore , I cannot think any ...
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This will be accomplished , if those actions and occupations which are deemed proper for the child are made to appear the privilege of a superior age ; by which means they will be rendered the objects of ambition and desire , instead of ...
This will be accomplished , if those actions and occupations which are deemed proper for the child are made to appear the privilege of a superior age ; by which means they will be rendered the objects of ambition and desire , instead of ...
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It will never be necessary to watch the actions of a child to ascertain this ; it may safely be taken for granted , and ought to be added to the account in every scheme for his education . Besides this , and accompanying it , is the ...
It will never be necessary to watch the actions of a child to ascertain this ; it may safely be taken for granted , and ought to be added to the account in every scheme for his education . Besides this , and accompanying it , is the ...
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Also the child's particular bent and disposition , which it is so desirable to know , will best be made apparent by leaving his actions free at these moments . But no violence must be suffered at any time to pass ...
Also the child's particular bent and disposition , which it is so desirable to know , will best be made apparent by leaving his actions free at these moments . But no violence must be suffered at any time to pass ...
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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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