Chapters on the Aims and Practice of TeachingFrederic Spencer |
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Page 19 - Il ira, cet ignorant dans l'art de bien dire, avec cette locution rude, avec cette phrase qui sent l'étranger, il ira en cette Grèce polie, la mère des philosophes et des orateurs ; et malgré la résistance du monde, il y établira plus d'églises que Platon n'ya gagné de disciples par cette éloquence qu'on a crue divine.
Page 1 - The mathematics, and the metaphysics, Fall to them, as you find your stomach serves you: No profit grows where is no pleasure ta'en ; — In brief, sir, study what you most affect.
Page 144 - And it is the office of historical science to maintain morality as the sole impartial criterion of men and things, and the only one on which honest minds can be made to agree.
Page 25 - Tower, as the deep-domed empyrean Rings to the roar of an angel onset — Me rather all that bowery loneliness, The brooks of Eden mazily murmuring, And bloom profuse and cedar arches Charm, as a wanderer out in ocean...
Page 34 - ... towards them, even above his fortune, of which in those administrations he was such a dispenser as if he had been trusted with it to such uses ; and, if there had been the least of vice in his expense, he might have been thought too prodigal.
Page 140 - They are facts from which no conclusions can be drawn — unorganizable facts; and therefore facts which can be of no service in establishing principles of conduct, which is the chief use of facts. Read them, if you like, for amusement; but do not flatter yourself they are instructive.
Page 33 - Duchess, with all the household, gentlemen and gentlewomen, were hunting in the park. I found her in her chamber reading...
Page 211 - ... learners. The following passage, for example, occurs in the chapter headed " Physical Science " in Spencer's Aims and Practice of Teaching Physical Science (London, 1897, CJ Clay and Sons), to which I have contributed the chapter on Chemistry : — A great deal has been written in favour of the Research attitude on the part of the learner. But despite the force of some of the arguments adduced, it may be doubted whether this attitude is the proper one for a beginner.
Page 47 - Ought we not, on the contrary, to seek out artists of another stamp, who by the power of genius can trace out the nature of the fair and the graceful, that our young men, dwelling as it were in a healthful region, may drink in good from every quarter, whence any emanation from n.oble works may strike upon their eye or their ear, like a gale wafting health from salubrious lands, and win them imperceptibly from their earliest childhood into resemblance, love, and harmony with the true beauty of reason?
Page 88 - The recognition of the fact that the fundamental principles of grammar are common to all languages constitutes a conspicuous merit of Sonnenschein's Parallel Grammar Series.