The American Journal of Education, Volume 11Henry Barnard F.C. Brownell, 1862 - Education |
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... kind of Teaching answered ,. 92 VI . GIDEON HAWLEY , .. 94 Memoir , 94 Services to the Common Schools of the State of New York ,. 97 VII . GREEK VIEWS ON EDUCATION , ....... 99 Extracts from " A Discourse touching the Nurture of ...
... kind of Teaching answered ,. 92 VI . GIDEON HAWLEY , .. 94 Memoir , 94 Services to the Common Schools of the State of New York ,. 97 VII . GREEK VIEWS ON EDUCATION , ....... 99 Extracts from " A Discourse touching the Nurture of ...
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... kind of artificial training , make any thing of any one , and obliterate all trace of the natural character . Those who hold that this is possible , and attempt to effect it , resemble Virgil , who ( whether in ignorance or , as some ...
... kind of artificial training , make any thing of any one , and obliterate all trace of the natural character . Those who hold that this is possible , and attempt to effect it , resemble Virgil , who ( whether in ignorance or , as some ...
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... kind of creatures live in it , and how ; what it is made of , and what may be made of it . Secondly . Where he is going . That is to say , what chances or re- ports there are of any other world besides this ; what seems to be the nature ...
... kind of creatures live in it , and how ; what it is made of , and what may be made of it . Secondly . Where he is going . That is to say , what chances or re- ports there are of any other world besides this ; what seems to be the nature ...
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... kind , and the sufficiency of his food and clothing ; the degree in which his physical powers are exerted ; the freedom with which his senses are allowed or encouraged to exercise themselves upon external objects ; the extent to which ...
... kind , and the sufficiency of his food and clothing ; the degree in which his physical powers are exerted ; the freedom with which his senses are allowed or encouraged to exercise themselves upon external objects ; the extent to which ...
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... kind are independent of relation to any particular substance , and are absolute . The properties which bodies . possess as belonging to some particular class of beings , form the data from which to reason in natural history and the ...
... kind are independent of relation to any particular substance , and are absolute . The properties which bodies . possess as belonging to some particular class of beings , form the data from which to reason in natural history and the ...
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Page 13 - Of law there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world ; all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power...
Page 327 - That every township in this jurisdiction, after the Lord hath increased them to the number of fifty house-holders, shall then forthwith appoint one within their town (1) Mass. Col. Recs. II. p. 203. to teach all such children as shall resort to him to write and read...
Page 12 - The end then of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him, as we may the neerest by possessing our souls of true vertue, which being united to the heavenly grace of faith makes up the highest • perfection.
Page 13 - ... a languishing faintness begin to stand and to rest himself; if the moon should wander from her beaten way, the times and seasons of the year blend themselves by disordered and confused mixture, the winds breathe out their last gasp, the clouds yield no rain, the earth be defeated of heavenly influence, the fruits of the earth pine away as children at the withered breasts of their mother no longer able to yield them relief; what would become of man himself, whom these things now do all serve ?...
Page 327 - We do not, indeed, expect all men to be philosophers or statesmen ; but we confidently trust, and our expectation of the duration of our system of government rests on that trust, that by the diffusion of general knowledge and good and virtuous sentiments, the political fabric may be secure, as well against open violence and overthrow, as against the slow, but sure, undermining of licentiousness.
Page 12 - 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 16 - If my reader will give me leave to change the allusion so soon upon him, I shall make use of the same instance to illustrate the force of education, which Aristotle has brought to explain his doctrine of substantial forms, when he tells us that a statue lies hid in a block of marble ; and that the art of the statuary only clears away the superfluous matter, and removes the rubbish. The figure is in the stone, and the sculptor only finds it.
Page 327 - For the purpose of public instruction, we hold every man subject to taxation, in proportion to his property, and we look not to the question, whether he, himself, have, or have not, children to be benefited by the education for which he pays. We regard it as a wise and liberal system of police, by which property, and life, and the peace of society are secured.
Page 16 - I CONSIDER a human soul without education like marble in the quarry, which shows none of its inherent beauties; until the skill of the polisher fetches out the colours, makes the surface shine, and discovers every ornamental cloud, spot, and vein that runs through the body of it.
Page 16 - The philosopher, the saint, or the hero, the wise, the good, or the great man, ve'ry often lie hid and concealed in a plebeian, which a proper education might have disinterred, and have brought to light.