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... writing the English language correctly . It is divided into four parts , namely , ( That namely always sounded so refined to me ) Orthography , Etymology , Syntax , and Pros- ody . " A wag once thinking a lad did not know what he was ...
... writing the English language correctly . It is divided into four parts , namely , ( That namely always sounded so refined to me ) Orthography , Etymology , Syntax , and Pros- ody . " A wag once thinking a lad did not know what he was ...
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... writer . The text used in the Fifties was but little better , in fact the Nineties had not much to its credit . How is this , taken from an examination for teachers held not many moons ago ? " How many gallons in a cask 32 inches long ...
... writer . The text used in the Fifties was but little better , in fact the Nineties had not much to its credit . How is this , taken from an examination for teachers held not many moons ago ? " How many gallons in a cask 32 inches long ...
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... write or count numbers from one to one billion , could never have supposed that the order of our work was the order of our needs . Had they stopped a mo- ment to think that if a man were to begin to count a billion and were to count one ...
... write or count numbers from one to one billion , could never have supposed that the order of our work was the order of our needs . Had they stopped a mo- ment to think that if a man were to begin to count a billion and were to count one ...
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... writing : " One half of the time which is now almost wholly wasted in district schools on English grammar attempted at too early an age , would be sufficient to teach our children to love the Republic and to become its loyal and life ...
... writing : " One half of the time which is now almost wholly wasted in district schools on English grammar attempted at too early an age , would be sufficient to teach our children to love the Republic and to become its loyal and life ...
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... write on the blackboard . " Then stepping to the board she wrote in large writing , " HE , SHE , IT . ” " You may use don't with any other pronoun , but don't forget these three . " At the class she would dis- cuss the reason why , and ...
... write on the blackboard . " Then stepping to the board she wrote in large writing , " HE , SHE , IT . ” " You may use don't with any other pronoun , but don't forget these three . " At the class she would dis- cuss the reason why , and ...
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Page 88 - Master of human destinies am I. Fame, love, and fortune on my footsteps wait, Cities and fields I walk; I penetrate Deserts and seas remote, and, passing by Hovel, and mart, and palace, soon or late I knock unbidden once at every gate! If sleeping, wake — if feasting, rise before I turn away. It is the hour of fate...
Page 45 - Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, Our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain. Awake but one, and lo, what myriads rise ! * Each stamps its image as the other flies.
Page 48 - He who checks a child with terror, Stops its play, and stills its song, Not alone commits an error, But a grievous moral wrong. Give it play, and never fear it, Active life is no defect ; Never, never, break its spirit ; Curb it only to direct. Would you stop the flowing river, Thinking it would cease to flow ? Onward must it flow for ever ; Better teach it where to go.
Page 85 - Poverty is uncomfortable, as I can testify; but nine times •out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim for himself. In all my acquaintance I never knew a man to be drowned who was worth the saving.
Page 88 - MASTER of human destinies am I! Fame, love, and fortune on my footsteps wait. Cities and fields I walk; I penetrate Deserts and seas remote, and passing by Hovel and mart and palace— soon or late I knock unbidden once at every gate! If sleeping, wake — if feasting, rise before I turn away. It is the hour of fate, And they who follow me reach every state Mortals desire, and conquer every foe Save death; but those who doubt or hesitate, Condemned to failure, penury, and woe, Seek me in vain and...
Page 99 - Ah !" I had planted the first want. He wanted me, and he wanted me there. He had felt my influence there: I was too far off in the chair. So I read to him two or three months more. Then, instead of reading aloud, I read to myself one day. After a long time, I saw he was trying to do something. I watched him. Gradually, he lifted his finger, and laid it on my lips. " Oh, you want me to read to you, do you?'
Page 83 - ... imperishable than the destroyer of his species, the scourge of the world, ever won. Such men, — men deserving the glorious title of teachers of mankind, I have found labouring conscientiously, though perhaps obscurely, in their blessed vocation, wherever I have gone. I have found them, and shared their fellowship, among the daring, the ambitious, the ardent, the indomitably active French; I have found them among the persevering, resolute, industrious Swiss...
Page 64 - There is no office higher than that of a teacher of youth; for there is nothing on earth so precious as the mind, soul, character of the child. No office should be regarded with greater respect. The first minds in the community should be encouraged to assume it. Parents should do all but impoverish themselves, to induce such to become the guardians and guides of their children.
Page 100 - This training went on till one day I found he could move his limbs. I put him on his hands and knees, to teach him to creep. This was nearly a year and a half after he came into the institution. As I placed him there, I said, " I wonder if I can help him to talk.
Page 34 - The principle that the main business of the teacher is to get the pupil to teach himself lies at the basis of the entire Art of Instruction.