The Infant System: For Developing the Intellectual and Moral Powers of all Children, from One to Seven years of AgeThe Infant System by Samuel Wilderspin is a book on infant education, based on his experience of running an infant school in Spitalfields, London. He advocates for a child-centered approach that encourages learning through experience and feelings. He also provides practical advice on how to organize and manage an infant school. |
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... INFANT. SYSTEM. Table of Contents It is said that we are aiming at carrying education too far; that we are drawing it out to an extravagant length, and that, not satisfied with dispensing education to children also have attained what in ...
... INFANT. SYSTEM. Table of Contents It is said that we are aiming at carrying education too far; that we are drawing it out to an extravagant length, and that, not satisfied with dispensing education to children also have attained what in ...
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... education, moral or religious. In the Refuge for the Destitute, an exact account was kept, and it was found that of the great mass of culprits sent there by the magistrates on account of their youth, two-thirds were the children of ...
... education, moral or religious. In the Refuge for the Destitute, an exact account was kept, and it was found that of the great mass of culprits sent there by the magistrates on account of their youth, two-thirds were the children of ...
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... infants. He had never seen a greater prodigy. He too had had his prejudices—his doubts of the possibility of infant education; but these doubts had now vanished, and for ever. The arrangements for bodily exercise, connected with mental ...
... infants. He had never seen a greater prodigy. He too had had his prejudices—his doubts of the possibility of infant education; but these doubts had now vanished, and for ever. The arrangements for bodily exercise, connected with mental ...
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... education in the neighbourhood of London , and ultimately in most of the principal places in England , Wales , Ireland , and Scotland — Misapprehension and perversion of the principles of infant education - Signs of advancement - Hope ...
... education in the neighbourhood of London , and ultimately in most of the principal places in England , Wales , Ireland , and Scotland — Misapprehension and perversion of the principles of infant education - Signs of advancement - Hope ...
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... Education of the infant poor— Its beneficial results - Cases of inviolable honesty - Appeal of Mr. Serjeant Bosanquet ― The infant school an asylum from accident and a prevention of various evils - Obstacles in the way of married ...
... Education of the infant poor— Its beneficial results - Cases of inviolable honesty - Appeal of Mr. Serjeant Bosanquet ― The infant school an asylum from accident and a prevention of various evils - Obstacles in the way of married ...
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