The History of Education: Educational Practice and Progress Considered as a Phase of the Development and Spread of Western CivilizationHoughton Mifflin, 1920 - 848 Seiten |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Alcuin American ancient Aristotle Athenian Athens Attica barbarian became began beginnings bishops cathedral schools Charlemagne Christian Church cities citizens civilization clergy Colonies Comenius early educa eighteenth century Emperor Empire England English established evolution faith France French German lands grammar schools Greece Greek guild ideas important influence institutions instruction intellectual Italian Italy King knowledge language later Latin literature master medieval method Middle Ages modern monasteries monastic monks Monte Cassino moral nature organization Paris period Pestalozzi Peter the Lombard philosophy political Pope practical progress Protestant Prussia pupils Quadrivium Quintilian reform religion religious result Roman Roman law Rome rule Saint Saint Gall scholars Scholasticism school system scientific secondary schools society Spain Sparta spirit taught teachers teaching textbooks Theology tion to-day towns Trivium universities vernacular western Europe writing
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 504 - A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy, or, perhaps, both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
Seite 503 - Promote, then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened.
Seite 504 - If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
Seite 415 - Art; and he that has found a way, how to keep up a Child's Spirit, easy, active and free; and yet, at the same time, to restrain him from many things he has a Mind to, and to draw him to things that are uneasy to him; he, I say, that knows how to reconcile these seeming Contradic15 tions, has, in my Opinion, got the true Secret of Education.
Seite 681 - God's worship, and settled the civil government, one of the next things we longed for, and looked after, was to advance learning and perpetuate it to posterity, dreading to leave an illiterate ministry to the churches when our present ministers shall lie in the dust.
Seite 428 - In every village marked with little spire, Embowered in trees, and hardly known to fame, There dwells, in lowly shed, and mean attire, A matron old, whom we schoolmistress name...
Seite 649 - The first duty of government, and the surest evidence of good government, is the encouragement of education. A general diffusion of knowledge is the precursor and protector of republican institutions, and in it we must confide as the conservative power that will watch over our liberties and guard them against fraud, intrigue, corruption and violence.
Seite 550 - I promised God that I would look upon every Prussian peasant child as a being who could complain of me before God if I did not provide for him the best education as a man and a Christian which it was possible for me to provide.
Seite 417 - God's blessing attain at least so much, as to be able duly to read the Scriptures, and other good and profitable printed books in the English tongue, being their native language, and in some competent measure to understand the main grounds and principles of Christian Religion necessary to salvation.
Seite 681 - Habits, and all such useful Knowledge as may render them creditable to their Families and Friends, Ornaments to their Country and useful to the public Weal in their Generations.