Lectures on Pedagogy: Theoretical and PracticalD. C. Heath & Company, 1887 - 491 Seiten |
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abstract æsthetic applied arithmetic attention Bain beautiful Buisson called cation character child common school comprehend condition course culture dictation exercises discipline Doubtless drawing duty effort elementary elements emotions emulation everything evil example exercises fact faculties faults feelings Fénelon geography give grammar Gréard Guizot gymnastics habit hand heart Herbert Spencer history of France human ideas imagination important instinct instruction intellectual education intelligence intuition judgment Jules Ferry knowledge labor language laws learned lessons Madame Madame Campan Madame de Sévigné Madame Necker means memory ment mental method metric system mind moral education nature necessary notions object-lesson objects observation Paul Bert pedagogy Pestalozzi physical pleasure practical principles programme pupils purpose qualities reading reason reflection Rousseau rules says school discipline sense sensible sentiment soul speak Spencer taste taught teacher teaching things thought tion truth words
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Seite 15 - That man, I think, has had a liberal education who has been so trained in youth that his body is the ready servant of his will, and does with ease and pleasure all the work that, as a mechanism, it is capable of; whose intellect is a clear, cold, logic engine, with all its parts of equal strength and in smooth working order...
Seite 10 - The purpose of education is to give to the body and to the soul all the beauty and all the perfection of which they are capable.
Seite 16 - ... whose intellect is a clear, cold, logic engine, with all its parts of equal strength, and in smooth working order; ready, like a steam engine, to be turned to any kind of work, and spin the gossamers as well as forge the anchors of the mind; whose mind is stored with a knowledge of the great and fundamental truths of Nature and of the laws of her operations; one who, no stunted ascetic, is full of life and fire, but whose passions are trained to come to heel by a vigorous will, the servant of...
Seite 34 - Are they forbidden vociferous play, or (being too ill-clothed to bear exposure), are they kept in-doors in cold weather? They are certain to fall below that measure of health and strength to which they would else have attained. When sons and daughters grow up sickly and feeble, parents commonly regard the event as a misfortune — as a visitation of Providence.
Seite 29 - As remarks a suggestive writer, the first requisite to success in life is " to be a good animal ; " and to be a nation of good animals is the first condition to national prosperity.
Seite 34 - To tens of thousands that are killed, add hundreds of thousands that survive with feeble constitutions, and millions that grow up with constitutions not so strong as they should be ; and you will have some idea of the curse inflicted on their offspring by parents ignorant of the laws of life.
Seite 224 - But, of all the ways whereby children are to be instructed, and their manners formed, the plainest, easiest, and most efficacious, is to set before their eyes the examples of those things you would have them do or avoid. Which, when they are pointed out to them, in the practice of persons within their knowledge, with some reflections on their beauty or unbecomingness, are of more force to draw or deter their imitation than any discourses which can be made to them.
Seite 128 - The rote-system, like other systems of its age, made more of the forms and symbols than of the things symbolized. To repeat the words correctly was everything; to understand their meaning nothing: and thus the spirit was sacrificed to the letter. It is at length perceived, that in this case as in others, such a result is not accidental but necessary — that in proportion as there is attention to the signs, there must be inattention to the things signified; or that, as Montaigne long ago said —...