The RecitationJ.B. Lippincott, 1906 - 351 pages |
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ability accuracy acquire analytic answer apply arithmetic arouse art of study ARTHUR HOLMES assignment attention class management clear comparison comprehension conclusions deductive definite demands desire direct discover discussion drill effort elemen elementary arithmetic elementary school Empirical methods errors essential examination exercise facts formal step gives grades grammar grasp habits ideas important individual inductive instruction interest judgment knowledge language law of similarity laws lead the child learner learning lesson logical material means ment mental action metic minor premise objective oral pedagogy phase practice principles problem pupil purpose questions quire recitation relations result rules SIR WILLIAM HAMILTON Skilful presentation skill slavery Socratic method stage student subject matter suggests syllogism teacher teaching text-book thing tical tion topic method TOPICAL OUTLINE train the child true truth unity vidual vigorous wise words write written
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Page 60 - Satan except, none higher sat, with grave Aspect he rose, and in his rising seemed A pillar of state; deep on his front engraven Deliberation sat and public care; And princely counsel in his face yet shone, Majestic though in ruin: sage he stood, With Atlantean shoulders fit to bear The weight of mightiest monarchies; his look Drew audience and attention still as night Or summer's noontide air...
Page 85 - He can still fall back on this elemental force of living them. This is a total act. Thinking is a partial act. Let the grandeur of justice shine in his affairs. Let the beauty of affection cheer his lowly roof. Those "far from fame...
Page 22 - We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives Who thinks most — feels the noblest — acts the best.
Page 64 - I preached as never sure to preach again, And as a dying man to dying men ! . . . Though God be fret', he works by instruments, And wisely fitteth them to his intents.
Page 354 - As Fancy opens the quick springs of Sense, We ply the Memory, we load the brain, Bind rebel Wit, and double chain on chain; Confine the thought, to exercise the breath; And keep them in the pale of Words till death.
Page 241 - ... objective means that which belongs to, or proceeds from, the object known, and not from the subject knowing; and thus denotes what is real in opposition to what is ideal,— what exists in nature, in contrast to what exists merely in the thought of the individual.
Page 358 - She was tumbled early, by accident or design, into a spacious closet of good old English reading, without much selection or prohibition, and browsed at will upon that fair and wholesome pasturage.
Page 351 - Words are like leaves; and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found.
Page 142 - In psychological approach, we proceed from the concrete to the abstract, from the simple to the complex and from known to unknown.
Page 226 - Punctuality is important as it gains time, it is like packing things in a box ; a good packer will get in half as much more as a bad one.