Necessity of Popular Education: As a National ObjectMarsh, Capen & Lyon, 1834 - 262 páginas |
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... least , may be ranked with those who work not with the hands ; so that we may assume a twofold division of the British people into the manual - labour class , and the class above manual labour . In considering the condition of the ...
... least , may be ranked with those who work not with the hands ; so that we may assume a twofold division of the British people into the manual - labour class , and the class above manual labour . In considering the condition of the ...
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... least , as the intellectual . I formerly quoted Mr. Wade's description of the moral condition of the manufacturing population of Manchester . But much short of this extreme is a low moral , in the more enlarged sense of that term ; and ...
... least , as the intellectual . I formerly quoted Mr. Wade's description of the moral condition of the manufacturing population of Manchester . But much short of this extreme is a low moral , in the more enlarged sense of that term ; and ...
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... least one hour a - day ; to repose from all exertion , bodily and mental , for one full hour after breakfast , and another full hour after dinner , be- cause the brain cannot expand its energy in thinking and aiding digestion at the ...
... least one hour a - day ; to repose from all exertion , bodily and mental , for one full hour after breakfast , and another full hour after dinner , be- cause the brain cannot expand its energy in thinking and aiding digestion at the ...
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... least part of education ; one who , knowing how much virtue and a well tem- pered soul is to be preferred to any sort of learning or language , makes it his chief business to form the mind of his scholars , and give that a right ...
... least part of education ; one who , knowing how much virtue and a well tem- pered soul is to be preferred to any sort of learning or language , makes it his chief business to form the mind of his scholars , and give that a right ...
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... least mis- take , the true ground of the controversy . They expatiate on the absolute merits of classical literature , but never dream of comparing it with the education which it excludes . When the question , however , is set on this ...
... least mis- take , the true ground of the controversy . They expatiate on the absolute merits of classical literature , but never dream of comparing it with the education which it excludes . When the question , however , is set on this ...
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Página 182 - ... who for the most part discover their defect in excessive fears and griefs, and yet are not wholly destitute of the use of reason...
Página 49 - it is twice blessed — It blesses him that gives and him that takes," does he not utter beautiful poetry as well as unquestionable truth?
Página 49 - And though a linguist should pride himself to have all the tongues that Babel cleft the world into, yet if he have not studied the solid things in them as well as the words and lexicons, he were nothing so much to be esteemed a learned man, as any yeoman or tradesman competently wise in his mother dialect only.
Página 39 - Latin and language the least part of education; one, who knowing how much virtue, and a well-tempered soul, is to be preferred to any sort of learning or language, makes it his chief business to form the mind of his scholars, and give that a right disposition: which, if once got, though all the rest should be neglected...
Página 39 - Tis virtue then, direct virtue, which is the hard and valuable part to be aimed at in education, and not a forward pertness or any little arts of shifting. All other considerations and accomplishments should give way and be postponed to this. This is the solid and substantial good which tutors should not only read lectures and talk of, but the...
Página 49 - ... of a family, and to behave properly when they have become such. In every part of her life, a woman feels some conveniency or advantage from every part of her education. It seldom happens that a man, in any part of his life, derives any conveniency or advantage from some of the most laborious and troublesome parts of his education.
Página 49 - 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 158 - It is a shameful and unblessed thing to take the scum of people and wicked condemned men, to be the people with whom you plant; and not only so, but it spoileth the plantation ; for they will ever live like rogues, and not fall to work, but be lazy, and do mischief, and spend victuals, and be quickly weary...
Página 233 - ... general and more profitable perusal of the Word of God. The passages introduced have been chosen, not as being of more importance than the rest of Scripture, but merely as appearing to be most level to the understandings of Children and Youth at School, and also...
Página 233 - Sunday) is to be set apart for the religious instruction of the children, on which day such pastors or other persons, as are approved of by the parents or guardians of the children, shall have access to them for that purpose...