Teaching: Its Nature and VarietiesUniversity Tutorial Press, 1915 - 446 pages |
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¹ Dumville abstract ideas acquired activity already possessed apperception aroused associated attempt attention Aveyron called child clearly conations concrete connection connotation and denotation course crete cubic foot deal definite desire direct early stages examination example exercises experience fact Fundamentals of Psychology further give given habits Herbartian heuristic important individual induced inductive reasoning instance instinct intelligent interest involved kinaesthetic kind knowledge large number learning less lesson Look and Say matter means ment merely mind moral instruction nature necessary Nelson's Column nerve cells object observation obtained obvious Phonic possible Principles Principles of Psychology problems punishment pupils purpose question reading realise reasoning recognise referred Say Method seen sensations sense sentences skill spelling statement story synapses teacher teaching telling tendencies things thought tion truth understand usually various vulgar fraction Welton whole words young children
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Page 249 - KNOW ye the land where the cypress and myrtle Are emblems of deeds that are done in their clime? Where the rage of the vulture, the love of the turtle, Now melt into sorrow, now madden to crime...
Page 8 - I call therefore a complete and generous education, that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war.
Page 118 - In all pedagogy the great thing is to strike the iron while hot, and to seize the wave of the pupil's interest in each successive subject before its ebb has come...
Page 1 - I CONSIDER a human soul without education like marble in the quarry, which shows none of its inherent beauties; until the skill of the polisher fetches out the colours, makes the surface shine, and discovers every ornamental cloud, spot, and vein that runs through the body of it. Education, after the same manner, when it works upon a noble mind, draws out to view every latent virtue and perfection, which without such helps are never able to make their appearance.
Page 285 - The evil-disposed in these districts began to rise, saying, they were too severely oppressed ; that at the beginning of the world there were no slaves, and that no one ought to be treated as such, unless he had committed treason against his lord, as Lucifer had done against God : but they had done no such thing, for they were neither angels nor spirits, but men formed after the same likeness with their lords, who treated them as beasts. This they would not longer bear, but had determined to be free,...
Page 74 - YES! in the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We mortal millions live alone. The islands feel the enclasping flow, And then their endless bounds they know.
Page 138 - To master John the English maid A hornbook gives of gingerbread; And, that the child may learn the better, As he can name, he eats the letter.
Page 2 - ... different ; by laws, by forms of government, by the industrial arts, by modes of social life ; nay even by physical facts not dependent on human will; by climate, soil, and local position.
Page 133 - There is no such thing as voluntary attention sustained for more than a few seconds at a time. What is called sustained voluntary attention is a repetition of successive efforts which bring back the topic to the mind...
Page 36 - We may be quite sure that the acquirement of those classes of facts which are most useful 4-2 for regulating conduct, involves a mental exercise best fitted for strengthening the faculties. It would be utterly contrary to the beautiful economy of Nature, if one kind of culture were needed for the gaining of information and another kind were needed as a mental gymnastic.