Science of EducationC. Scribner's sons, 1904 - 407 pages |
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achievement activity Alexander Bain animals becomes behavior body character child civic codes common conduct consciousness constitute culture DeWitt Hyde discrimination ditions educa effective efficiency effort ence environment eral ethical Evolution philosophy exercise experience fact factor faculty feelings fixed forms functions Gabriel Tarde growing growth habit Herbert Spencer human ical ideals imitation implies important impulse individual industrial influence instinct institutions intellectual intelligent interest interpretation J. G. Holland knowledge laws learning less manifold material matter maturing means ment mental mind mind's moral movement nature of education normative science observation one's organic pedagogical phenomena philosophy Physiological Psychology practice principles Psychology purpose qualities race race's reactions reason relations rience says science of education scientific sense skill social society spirit stimulated T. H. Huxley teacher teaching tendency things thinking thought tion tive true vidual
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Page 146 - Still roll ; where all the aspects of misery Predominate; whose strong effects are such As he must bear, being powerless to redress; And that unless above himself he can Erect himself, how poor a thing is man...
Page 21 - In other words, education is the instruction of the intellect in the laws of Nature, under which name I include not merely things and their forces, but men and their ways; and the fashioning of the affections and of the will into an earnest and loving desire to move in harmony with those laws.
Page 108 - FAIR are the flowers and the children, but their subtle suggestion is fairer; Rare is the roseburst of dawn, but the secret that clasps it is rarer; Sweet the exultance of song, but the strain that precedes it is sweeter; And never was poem yet writ, but the meaning outmastered the meter.
Page 149 - Heaven is not reached at a single bound ; But we build the ladder by which we rise From the lowly earth to the vaulted skies, And we mount to its summit, round by round.
Page 231 - 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; ready, like a steam engine, to be turned to any kind of work...
Page 338 - And the land was not able to bear them, that they might dwell together : for their substance was great, so that they could not dwell together.
Page 149 - We hope, we aspire, we resolve, we trust, When the morning calls us to life and light ; But our hearts grow weary, and ere the night Our lives are trailing the sordid dust.
Page 368 - Let us understand, once for all, that the ethical progress of society depends, not on imitating the cosmic process, still less in running away from it, but in combating it.
Page 22 - I shall confine myself, however, to education in the narrower sense ; 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 level of improvement which has been attained.
Page 369 - For his successful progress, throughout the savage state, man has been largely indebted to those qualities which he shares with the ape and the tiger...