The schoolmaster: essays on practical education, selected from the works of Ascham [and others], from the Quarterly journal of education, and from lecturesCharles Knight, 1836 |
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... opinion ; others opposed it . Ascham joined those who thought that 66 children were sooner allured by love , than driven by beating , to attain good learning ; wherein , " he says , " I was the bolder to say my mind , because Mr. Secre ...
... opinion ; others opposed it . Ascham joined those who thought that 66 children were sooner allured by love , than driven by beating , to attain good learning ; wherein , " he says , " I was the bolder to say my mind , because Mr. Secre ...
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... opinion is that he will best acquire this faculty by use of writing . After some time when the scholar is found to perform this first kind of exercise with increasing ease and cor- rectness , he must have longer lessons to translate ...
... opinion is that he will best acquire this faculty by use of writing . After some time when the scholar is found to perform this first kind of exercise with increasing ease and cor- rectness , he must have longer lessons to translate ...
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... opinion love is fitter than fear , gentleness better than beating , to bring up a child rightly in learning . " With the common use of teaching , and beating in common schools of England , I will not greatly contend ; which if I did ...
... opinion love is fitter than fear , gentleness better than beating , to bring up a child rightly in learning . " With the common use of teaching , and beating in common schools of England , I will not greatly contend ; which if I did ...
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... men's feet , and not by their own , what outward brag soever is borne by them , is indeed of itself , and in wise men's eyes , of no great estimation . " D 3 The author here gives it as his opinion , that SCHOOLMASTER . 29.
... men's feet , and not by their own , what outward brag soever is borne by them , is indeed of itself , and in wise men's eyes , of no great estimation . " D 3 The author here gives it as his opinion , that SCHOOLMASTER . 29.
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Schoolmaster. The author here gives it as his opinion , that there are certain sciences by the over - much study and ... opinions . He there observes that " lutes , harps , bar- bitons , sambukes , with other instruments , every one which ...
Schoolmaster. The author here gives it as his opinion , that there are certain sciences by the over - much study and ... opinions . He there observes that " lutes , harps , bar- bitons , sambukes , with other instruments , every one which ...
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Page 110 - I shall detain you no longer in the demonstration of what we should not do, but straight conduct ye to a hillside, where I will point ye 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.
Page 118 - The interim of unsweating themselves regularly, and convenient rest before meat, may, both with profit and delight, be taken up in recreating and composing their travailed...
Page 111 - I call therefore a complete and generous education that which fits a man to perform justly, skillfully, and magnanimously all the offices both private and public of peace and war.
Page 40 - I am with him. And when I am called from him I fall on weeping, because whatsoever I do else but learning is full of grief, trouble, fear, and whole misliking unto me. And thus my book hath been so much my pleasure, and bringeth daily to me more pleasure and more, that in respect of it all other pleasures, in very deed, be but trifles and troubles unto me.
Page 109 - ... that which casts our proficiency therein so much behind, is our time lost partly in too oft idle vacancies ' given both to schools and universities; partly in a preposterous exaction, forcing the empty wits of children to compose themes, verses, and orations, which are the acts of ripest judgment, and the final work of a head filled, by long reading and observing, with elegant maxims and copious invention.
Page 110 - ... and tyrannous aphorisms, appear to them the highest points of wisdom; instilling their barren hearts with a conscientious slavery, if, as I rather think, it be not feigned. Others, lastly, of a more delicious and airy spirit, retire themselves, knowing no better, to the enjoyments of ease and luxury, living out their days in feast and jollity; which, indeed, is the wisest and the safest course of all these, unless they were with more integrity undertaken.
Page 117 - ... that sublime art which in Aristotle's poetics, in Horace, and the Italian commentaries of Castelvetro,18 Tasso, Mazzoni, and others, teaches what the laws are of a true epic poem, what of a dramatic, what of a lyric, what decorum is, which is the grand masterpiece to observe.
Page 182 - of law there can be no less acknowledged than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world...
Page 104 - If two triangles have two sides of the one equal to two sides of the...
Page 40 - For when I am in presence either of father or mother, whether I speak, keep silence, sit, stand, or go, eat, drink, be merry or sad, be sewing, playing, dancing or doing anything else, I must do it, as it were, in such weight, measure and number, even so perfectly as God made the world...