Education, Volume 15New England Publishing Company, 1895 - Education |
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... individual student . ― When I took the regular course in Harvard College , there seemed to be not the slightest consideration of what was most suitable for me . A curriculum of learning had been trans- mitted , and I was run through it ...
... individual student . ― When I took the regular course in Harvard College , there seemed to be not the slightest consideration of what was most suitable for me . A curriculum of learning had been trans- mitted , and I was run through it ...
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... individual and original powers . Such is the distinguishing work of the German universities . " The workshop and the training school of scientific investiga- tion " are the most potent factors in them . " According to the German ...
... individual and original powers . Such is the distinguishing work of the German universities . " The workshop and the training school of scientific investiga- tion " are the most potent factors in them . " According to the German ...
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... individual and useful life . Usefulness , adaptability , keen obser- vation , sound judgement , the faculty of original research and allied faculties are cultivated best in practical life , before the age of twenty - one , before the ...
... individual and useful life . Usefulness , adaptability , keen obser- vation , sound judgement , the faculty of original research and allied faculties are cultivated best in practical life , before the age of twenty - one , before the ...
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... individual request . " The signers assert that as " experts they are convinced that the intro- duction into the schools of the definite dogmatic teaching desired by the leaders in this movement is both unsuitable and unwarranted . They ...
... individual request . " The signers assert that as " experts they are convinced that the intro- duction into the schools of the definite dogmatic teaching desired by the leaders in this movement is both unsuitable and unwarranted . They ...
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... individual affair . Each must do his own thinking , follow his own clews , and reach his own conclusions . Every branch of the sciences demands earnest , voluntary and persistent effort , and he who is not willing to subject himself to ...
... individual affair . Each must do his own thinking , follow his own clews , and reach his own conclusions . Every branch of the sciences demands earnest , voluntary and persistent effort , and he who is not willing to subject himself to ...
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Page 415 - So likewise ye, except ye utter by the tongue words easy to be understood, how shall it be known what is spoken? for ye shall speak into the air.
Page 530 - Social progress means a checking of the cosmic process at every step and the substitution for it of another, which may be called the ethical process; the end of which is not the survival of those who may happen to be the fittest, in respect of the whole of the conditions which obtain, but of those who are ethically the best.
Page 47 - Thou art, of what sort the eternal life of the saints was to be, which eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, nor hath it entered into the heart of man to conceive.
Page 400 - That whenever the United States shall be invaded, or be in imminent danger of invasion from any foreign nation or Indian tribe, it shall be lawful for the President of the United States, to call forth such number of the militia of the state or states most convenient to the place of danger or scene of action, as he may judge necessary to repel such invasion, and...
Page 334 - Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind, and when the same thought occurs to another man, it is the key to that era. Every reform was once a private opinion, and when it shall be a private opinion again, it will solve the problem of the age.
Page 361 - Wherefore say unto the children of Israel, I am the Lord, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will rid you out of their bondage, and I will redeem you with a stretched out arm, and with great judgments...
Page 47 - I saw the blue Rhine sweep along — I heard, or seemed to hear, The German songs we used to sing, in chorus sweet and clear, And down the pleasant river, and up the slanting hill...
Page 364 - That changed through all, and yet in all the same. Great in the earth, as in the ethereal frame, Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees ; Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent...
Page 82 - Ah ! what would the world be to us, If the children were no more ? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before.
Page 5 - The vital knowledge— that by which we have grown as a nation to what we are, and which now underlies our whole existence, is a knowledge that has got itself taught in nooks and corners; while the ordained agencies for teaching have been mumbling little else but dead formulas.