School Economy: A Treatise on the Preparation, Organization, Employments, Government and Authorities of SchoolsLippincott, 1867 - 381 pages |
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Page 322 - ... with their correlatives freedom of choice and responsibility — man being all this, it is at once obvious that the principal part of his being is his mental power. In Nature there is nothing great but Man, In Man there is nothing great but Mind.
Page 321 - Thou must be true thyself, If thou the truth wouldst- teach; Thy soul must overflow, if thou Another's soul wouldst reach. It needs the overflow of heart To give the lips full speech.
Page 365 - What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. Sure he that made us with such large discourse, Looking before and after, gave us not That capability and god-like reason To fust in us unus'd.
Page 349 - Character has been defined as a perfectly formed will, but it must be understood that the principal agent in forming the will is the will itself. The will, building character by its own conscious acts, is the supreme aim of moral training. The child that is trained up "in the way he should go will not depart from it," because his will has become morally formed and he does not choose to. How to provide the child with a moral experience rather than simply moral ideas, is the problem we have to work...
Page 320 - They made us many soldiers. Chatham, still Consulting England's happiness at home, Secured it by an unforgiving frown, If any wrong'd her. Wolfe, where'er he fought, Put so much of his heart into his act, That his example had a magnet's force, And all were swift to follow whom all loved.
Page 163 - that there is any difference between the presence of God here or there ? ' ' Indeed I do,' said I. ' Here we see through a glass, darkly ; but there face to face.
Page i - All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of children.
Page 381 - The dearest interest of a nation Is the education of its children." The art of Teaching, as well as all other arts, is making very rapid progress in this very progressive age. The remarkable growth of Normal Schools, organized to instruct in the best methods of teaching, and employing as professors the most able and advanced educators in the country, has given an immense...
Page 4 - A school-house so situated that the children who frequent it can look out in all directions upon scenes of romantic wildness or quiet beauty will teach many lessons better than they can be learned from books. We are taught unconsciously by the objects that surround us; and towering mountains and peaceful valleys, golden grain and shaded forests, rough wild rocks and pleasant...
Page 44 - This quantity will make a mixture sufficient to cover twenty square yards of surface. A little flour of emery will prevent the mixture from ' setting ' immediately; thus giving time to put it on the wall with the necessary care. If emery be not used, only a small quantity of the mixture can be put on at a time ; and this is, perhaps, the best plan.