Education, Volume 15New England Publishing Company, 1895 - Education |
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... quite a different direc- tion , and at the end of nearly a decade came out in spite of the curriculum . Such cases of arrested development are still common . ― Too frequently , also , what has been transmitted 2 [ Sept. , EDUCATION .
... quite a different direc- tion , and at the end of nearly a decade came out in spite of the curriculum . Such cases of arrested development are still common . ― Too frequently , also , what has been transmitted 2 [ Sept. , EDUCATION .
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... tion — 99 in number - we find 390 words , out of a total of 476 , or 82 per cent , with a sign that makes the determination of this sound of a an easy matter . In the great majority of the remaining words , long a is found at the end of ...
... tion — 99 in number - we find 390 words , out of a total of 476 , or 82 per cent , with a sign that makes the determination of this sound of a an easy matter . In the great majority of the remaining words , long a is found at the end of ...
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... tion , and its character is determined by the nature of its under- lying elementary education ; its unwisdom , if I may be pardoned for the criticism , appears in placing experts in higher education as a dominant influence in each of ...
... tion , and its character is determined by the nature of its under- lying elementary education ; its unwisdom , if I may be pardoned for the criticism , appears in placing experts in higher education as a dominant influence in each of ...
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... tion of wild animals and game . Of insects I saw few worth nam- ing , except some obtrusive species whose mission seemed to be to teach humility by disturbing the temper and making life weary . But the charm of Glengarriffe would be ...
... tion of wild animals and game . Of insects I saw few worth nam- ing , except some obtrusive species whose mission seemed to be to teach humility by disturbing the temper and making life weary . But the charm of Glengarriffe would be ...
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... tion , it seemed as if the leap might have been measured obliquely , and that the donkey was an athlete in his day . But adieu ! charming , chilling scene , - Glengarriffe , — adieu ! We thundered into the majestic tunnel at the crest ...
... tion , it seemed as if the leap might have been measured obliquely , and that the donkey was an athlete in his day . But adieu ! charming , chilling scene , - Glengarriffe , — adieu ! We thundered into the majestic tunnel at the crest ...
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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.