Educational Essays, Or, Practical Observations on the Intellectual and Moral Training and Scholastic Discipline of Youth: With Inquiries and Remarks Illustrating the Respective Advantages of Home and Colonial Education; and Suggesting Methods by which the Necessity of Leaving the Colony in Order to Obtain a Liberal Education May be SupersededGeorge Robertson, 1867 - 145 من الصفحات |
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acquired acquisition admitted adopted advancement advantages appear application ARISTOTLE attained attention boarding schools boys branch cation character Cicero circumstances classes College of Preceptors colony Comparative Advantages consequences correspondent's course cultivation desire dicere difficulty dili diligence discipline disposition duties early EDWARD HEARN elocution eminent employed emulation encouraged ESSAY evil exciting exer exercise exertion faculties favourable feelings frequently furnish future habits Hearn honourable human important individual indolence influence instruction intellectual interest judicious knowledge labour learning lectures LELAND STANFORD less lessons literary Lord Brougham means memory ment mental method moral motives nature object observed opinion parents perceive perhaps period persons POLITICAL ECONOMY practice praise preceding remarks preceptor present prevail principles prize promote pupils pursuits QUINTILIAN referred render respect result salutary scholastic secure sequent SKINNER studious success suggested superior teacher thought tion tutor uncon UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE views writer youthful mind
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الصفحة 31 - Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report ; if there be any virtue, if there be any praise, think on these things.
الصفحة 124 - And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown ; but we an incorruptible.
الصفحة i - I think I may say, that of all the men we meet with, nine parts of ten are what they are, good or evil, useful or not, by their education.
الصفحة 68 - Let school-taught pride dissemble all it can, These little things are great to little man ; And wiser he whose sympathetic mind Exults in all the good of all mankind.
الصفحة 47 - I shall detain you now no longer in the demonstration of what we should not do, but straight conduct you to a hill-side, where I will point you out the right path of a virtuous and noble education ; laborious indeed at the first ascent, but else so smooth, so green, so full of goodly prospect, and melodious sounds on every side, that the harp of Orpheus was not more charming-.
الصفحة 133 - But here the main skill and groundwork will be to temper them such lectures and explanations, upon every opportunity, as may lead and draw them in willing obedience, inflamed with the study of learning and the admiration of virtue, stirred up with high hopes of living to be brave men and worthy patriots, dear to God and famous to all ages...
الصفحة 41 - There is a most remarkable reciprocal action between the interest which the teacher takes and that which he communicates to his pupils. If he is not with his whole mind present at the subject ; if he does not care whether it is understood or not, whether his manner is liked or not, he will never fail of alienating the affections of his pupils, and of rendering them indifferent to what he says. But real interest taken in the task of instruction — kind words, and kinder feelings — the very expression...
الصفحة 1 - The most essential objects of education are the two following : First, to cultivate all the various principles of our nature, both speculative and active, in such a manner as to bring them to the greatest perfection of which they are susceptible ; and, secondly, by watching over the impressions and associations which the mind receives in early life, to secure it against the influence of prevailing errors, and, as far as possible, to engage its prepossessions on the side of truth.
الصفحة 130 - many do as if a man should see one have ten pounds, which he reckoned by 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, meaning four was but four units, and five five units, &c. and that he had in all but ten pounds: the other that sees him, takes not the figures together as he doth, but picks here and there; and thereupon reports that he...
الصفحة 134 - ... (for that is the knowledge of a man's duty, and the satisfaction it is to obey his Maker, in following the dictates of that light God has given him, with the hopes of acceptation and reward,) yet it is that which comes nearest to it, and being the testimony and applause that other people's reason, as it were, by a common consent, gives to virtuous and well-ordered actions, it is the proper guide and encouragement of children, till they grow able to judge for themselves, and to find what is right...