The Educational Writings of John LockeE. Arnold, 1912 - 272 páginas |
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... course of events ; the educational situation of the present is to be understood in its completeness only by reference to the past as embodied in their work . John Locke is of the number . He was profoundly dis- satisfied with education ...
... course of events ; the educational situation of the present is to be understood in its completeness only by reference to the past as embodied in their work . John Locke is of the number . He was profoundly dis- satisfied with education ...
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... course of much Latin , some Greek , and , far less frequently , some Hebrew ; the learn- ing of the great biblical scholars had effected an entrance where the new philosophy had failed . We must not , of course , think of the Latin of ...
... course of much Latin , some Greek , and , far less frequently , some Hebrew ; the learn- ing of the great biblical scholars had effected an entrance where the new philosophy had failed . We must not , of course , think of the Latin of ...
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... course of university education was quite unlike it . In France , private enterprise , or munificence , opened " academies " which were expressly intended to educate after the pattern of the doctrine of courtesy ; and these late ...
... course of university education was quite unlike it . In France , private enterprise , or munificence , opened " academies " which were expressly intended to educate after the pattern of the doctrine of courtesy ; and these late ...
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... course . The seventeenth - century amateur commonly cherished some form of handwork as a hobby ; and hobbies were ... courses of study long before such a change was adopted by England , where academies never flourished . Locke's place in ...
... course . The seventeenth - century amateur commonly cherished some form of handwork as a hobby ; and hobbies were ... courses of study long before such a change was adopted by England , where academies never flourished . Locke's place in ...
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... course of studies is so evident that the topic will not be further pressed.2 From the standpoint of method the most striking features of Some Thoughts are the insistence on the educational function of play , the part assigned to utility ...
... course of studies is so evident that the topic will not be further pressed.2 From the standpoint of method the most striking features of Some Thoughts are the insistence on the educational function of play , the part assigned to utility ...
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Página 219 - Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking makes what we read ours. We are of the ruminating kind, and it is not enough to cram ourselves with a great load of collections; unless we chew them over again, they will not give us strength and nourishment.
Página 116 - 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 learnt otherwise easily and delightfully in one year.
Página 198 - Just so it is in the mind; would you have a man reason well, you must use him to it betimes, exercise his mind in observing the connection of ideas and following them in train. Nothing does this better than mathematics, which therefore I think should be taught all those who have the time and opportunity, not so much to make them mathematicians as to make them reasonable creatures...
Página 27 - A SOUND mind in a sound body, is a short but full description of a happy state in this world : he that has these two, has little more to wish for ; and he that wants either of them, will be but little the better for any thing else.
Página 42 - Esteem and disgrace are, of all others, the most powerful incentives to the mind, when once it is brought to relish them. If you can once get into children a love of credit and an apprehension of shame and disgrace, you have put into them the true principle, which will constantly work and incline them to the right.
Página 27 - I think I may say, that of all the men we meet with, nine parts of ten are what they are, good or evil, useful or not, by their education.
Página 231 - Truths are not the better nor the worse for their obviousness or difficulty, but their value is to be measured by their usefulness and tendency.
Página 78 - The great work of a governor is to fashion the carriage and form the mind ; to settle in his pupil good habits, and the principles of virtue and wisdom ; to give him, by little and little, a view of mankind ; and work him into a love and imitation of what is excellent and praiseworthy ; and, in the prosecution of it, to give him vigour, activity, and industry.
Página 93 - One thing I have frequently observ'd in children, that when they have got possession of any poor creature, they are apt to use it ill: they often torment, and treat very roughly, young birds, butterflies, and such other poor animals which fall into their hands, and that with a seeming kind of pleasure.
Página 38 - 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...