The Eclectic Teacher and Kentucky School Journal, Volume 1Eclectic Teacher Company, 1876 - Education |
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... nature . But neither eye nor ear , nor any other sense or faculty , will avail to the acquisition of knowledge , unless the power of attention is cultivated . Attention , then , is the first act or power of the mind that must be aroused ...
... nature . But neither eye nor ear , nor any other sense or faculty , will avail to the acquisition of knowledge , unless the power of attention is cultivated . Attention , then , is the first act or power of the mind that must be aroused ...
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... Natural Philoso- phy and gain the idea as free from the particular words of the book . The habit of word - retaining is so strong upon them that they cannot shake it off . Where such a pupil recites a definition , he has the book in the ...
... Natural Philoso- phy and gain the idea as free from the particular words of the book . The habit of word - retaining is so strong upon them that they cannot shake it off . Where such a pupil recites a definition , he has the book in the ...
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... natural qualities of the Scotch- man were still what they had been when learned and benevolent men advised that he should be flogged , like a beast of burden , to his daily task . But the State had given him an education . That ...
... natural qualities of the Scotch- man were still what they had been when learned and benevolent men advised that he should be flogged , like a beast of burden , to his daily task . But the State had given him an education . That ...
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... nature as well qualified to be teachers as men , and that when they do equal work they should have equal pay . We believe that the teacher who is influenced by no higher consideration than the salary paid , is unworthy of his calling ...
... nature as well qualified to be teachers as men , and that when they do equal work they should have equal pay . We believe that the teacher who is influenced by no higher consideration than the salary paid , is unworthy of his calling ...
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... natures which has resulted from the first bias thus communicated during school - days ? At many boarding schools it is the junior master who superintends the preparation of lessons . But why should it be the junior masters to whom is ...
... natures which has resulted from the first bias thus communicated during school - days ? At many boarding schools it is the junior master who superintends the preparation of lessons . But why should it be the junior masters to whom is ...
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Page 27 - Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire, Hands that the rod of empire might have swayed Or waked to ecstasy the living lyre ; But Knowledge to their eyes her ample page, Rich with the spoils of time, did ne'er unroll ; Chill Penury repressed their noble rage And froze the genial current of the soul.
Page 134 - Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honor the face of the old man, and fear thy God: I am the LORD.
Page 57 - For the purpose of public instruction, we hold every man subject to taxation in proportion to his property, and we look not to the question, whether he himself have, or have not, children .to be benefited by the education for which he pays.
Page 52 - Except ye become as little children, ye cannot enter into the kingdom of heaven.
Page 60 - I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue : but if you mouth it, as many of our players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines. Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus ; but use all gently : for in the very torrent, tempest, and (as I may say) whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance, that may give it smoothness.
Page 130 - Yet, ere we part, one lesson I can leave you For every day. Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever ; Do noble things, not dream them, all day long : And so make life, death, and that vast for-ever One grand, sweet song.
Page 57 - By general instruction, we seek, as far as possible, to purify the whole moral atmosphere ; to keep good sentiments uppermost, and to turn the strong current of feeling and opinion, as well as the censures of the law, and the denunciations of religion, against immorality and crime. We hope for a security, beyond the law, and above the law, in the prevalence of enlightened and well-principled moral sentiment.
Page 59 - The quality of mercy is not strained, It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath. It is twice blessed: It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes...
Page 59 - Take then thy bond, take thou thy pound of flesh ; But, in the cutting it, if thou dost shed One drop of Christian blood, thy lands and goods Are, by the laws of Venice, confiscate Unto the state of Venice.
Page 217 - He admits, however, that this is a very wide view of the subject, and for his own immediate purpose advances a narrower view, namely : " the culture which each generation purposely gives to those who are to be its successors, in order to qualify them for at least keeping up, and, if possible, for raising, the improvement which has been attained.