The Cyclopædia of Education: a Dictionary of Information for the Use of Teachers, School Officers, Parents, and OthersHenry Kiddle, Alexander Jacob Schem |
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... whole subject. In accordance with these views, the editors now present, a little more than two years after the first announcement of the work, a single volume of nearly 900 pages, in which they have endeavored to treat, in alphabetical ...
... whole subject. In accordance with these views, the editors now present, a little more than two years after the first announcement of the work, a single volume of nearly 900 pages, in which they have endeavored to treat, in alphabetical ...
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... whole attention to internal reforms , and specially to the promotion of education . Al- though he is said to have been twelve years of age , before he was taught the alphabet , and although his health was always feeble , he showed a ...
... whole attention to internal reforms , and specially to the promotion of education . Al- though he is said to have been twelve years of age , before he was taught the alphabet , and although his health was always feeble , he showed a ...
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... whole nation . This language they commonly called Anglise , or Englise . i . e . English , but since the 17th century it has been called Anglo - Saxon . its best period was the reign of Alfred the Great . A. D. 871 -901 . In the careful ...
... whole nation . This language they commonly called Anglise , or Englise . i . e . English , but since the 17th century it has been called Anglo - Saxon . its best period was the reign of Alfred the Great . A. D. 871 -901 . In the careful ...
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... whole gram- matical system as given in the text - books was a series of " aberrations into which our great Anglo- Saxon leader , Dr. Hickes , has been seduced by too much regard to the structure of the Greek and Latin languages ...
... whole gram- matical system as given in the text - books was a series of " aberrations into which our great Anglo- Saxon leader , Dr. Hickes , has been seduced by too much regard to the structure of the Greek and Latin languages ...
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... whole man , with all his faculties - sub- jecting his senses , his understanding , and his pas- sions to reason and to conscience . FELLENBERG . I call a complete and generous education that which fits a man to perform justly ...
... whole man , with all his faculties - sub- jecting his senses , his understanding , and his pas- sions to reason and to conscience . FELLENBERG . I call a complete and generous education that which fits a man to perform justly ...
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Page 158 - That the selectmen of every town in the several precincts and quarters where they dwell, shall have a vigilant eye over their brethren and neighbors, to see, first, that none of them shall suffer so much barbarism in any of their families, as not to endeavor to teach by themselves or others, their children and apprentices so much learning, as may enable them perfectly to read the English tongue, and knowledge of the capital laws, upon penalty of twenty shillings for each neglect therein...
Page 171 - For whom the Lord loveth, he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth. If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons ; for what son is he whom the Father chasteneth not ? But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards and not sons.
Page 171 - Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him (xxii.
Page 52 - MAN, being the servant and interpreter of Nature, can do and understand so much and so much only as he has observed in fact or in thought of the course of nature: beyond this he neither knows anything nor can do anything.
Page 50 - They are for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book than to be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit and made a satellite instead of a system.
Page 172 - And hardly she forbears, through awful fear, To rushen forth, and, with presumptuous hand, To stay harsh justice in its mid career. On thee she calls, on thee her parent dear! . . (Ah ! too remote to ward the shameful blow!) She sees no kind domestic visage near, And soon a flood of tears begins to flow ; And gives a loose at last to unavailing woe.
Page 32 - Intelligence and virtue being the safeguards of liberty and the bulwark of a free and good government, the state shall ever maintain a general, suitable and efficient system of free schools, whereby all persons in the state between the ages of six and twenty-one years may receive gratuitous instruction.
Page 268 - In which it will also appear, that this Church is far from intending to depart from the Church of England in any essential point of doctrine, discipline, or worship ; or further than local circumstances require.
Page 158 - Lord hath increased them to the number of fifty householders, shall then forthwith appoint one within their town to teach all such children as shall resort to him, to write and read, whose wages shall be paid, either by the parents or masters of such children, or by the inhabitants in general, by way of supply, as the major part of those that order the prudentials of the town shall appoint...