Educating the Child at Home: Personal Training & the Work HabitHarper, 1914 - 214 pages |
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Educating the Child at Home: Personal Training and the Work Habit (1914) Ella Frances Lynch No preview available - 2008 |
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acquired alphabet arithmetic assigned beautiful become beginning better chapter chil child's mind childhood color count difficulties drawing duty early effort eight fact feel four fractions FRANCES LYNCH girl Gitche Gumee give the child given grade habit Hiawatha high-school home teaching idea Iliad individual instruction Julius Cæsar kindergarten later lesson literature little child little Hiawatha Mark Twain master means measure memory mental mental arithmetic method metic Montessori multiplication table natural Nokomis observation parents pebbles pedagogue perhaps period poem poetry portunities practice problem public school public-school system pupil question rize sense silent letters single sound spelling square inches stamens step story task taught teacher teaching tell things thought tion to-day vocabulary weeks wigwam wonderful words worth writing written young
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Page 70 - There the wrinkled, old Nokomis Nursed the little Hiawatha, Rocked him in his linden cradle, Bedded soft in moss and rushes, Safely bound with reindeer sinews; Stilled his fretful wail by saying, "Hush! the Naked Bear will get thee!" Lulled him into slumber, singing, "Ewa-yea! my little owlet!
Page 194 - 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 69 - By the shores of Gitche Gumee, By the shining Big-Sea-Water, Stood the wigwam of Nokomis, Daughter of the Moon, Nokomis. Dark behind it rose the forest, Rose the black and gloomy pine-trees, Rose the firs with cones upon them ; Bright before it beat the water, Beat the clear and sunny water, Beat the shining Big-Sea-Water.
Page 176 - I am only one, But still I am one. I cannot do everything, But still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.
Page 181 - ALL are architects of Fate, Working in these walls of Time ; Some with massive deeds and great, Some with ornaments of rhyme. Nothing useless is, or low ; Each thing in its place is best ; And what seems but idle show Strengthens and supports the rest.
Page 195 - HATS off! Along the street there comes A blare of bugles, a ruffle of drums, A flash of color beneath the sky: Hats off! The flag is passing by! Blue and crimson and white it shines, Over the steel-tipped, ordered lines. Hats off! The colors before us fly; But more than the flag is passing by...
Page 204 - No book is worth anything which is not worth much; nor is it serviceable, until it has been read, and re-read, and loved, and loved again; and marked, so that you can refer to the passages you want in it, as a soldier can seize the weapon he needs in an armoury, or a housewife bring the spice she needs from her store.
Page 74 - One must be an inventor to read well. As the proverb says, ' He that would bring home the wealth of the Indies, must carry out the wealth of the Indies.
Page 198 - For want of a nail, the shoe was lost, For want of a shoe, the horse was lost, For want of a horse, the rider was lost, For want of a rider, the battle was lost.
Page 14 - Education " for the most part signifies giving people the faculty of thinking wrong on every conceivable subject of importance to them.