School work, Volume 2

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Pagina 80 - I call therefore a complete and generous education, that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war.
Pagina 171 - I think evident, that we find in ourselves a power to begin or forbear, continue or end several actions of our minds, and motions of our bodies, barely by a thought or preference of the mind ordering, or, as it were, commanding the doing or not doing such or such a particular action.
Pagina 187 - ... we felt to be, with all his heart and soul and strength, striving against whatever was mean and unmanly and unrighteous in our little world. It was not the cold, clear voice of one giving advice and warning from serene heights to those who were struggling and sinning below, but the warm, living voice of one who was fighting for us and by our sides, and calling on us to help him and ourselves and one another.
Pagina 203 - a sound Mind in a sound body — is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.
Pagina 187 - And he who roused this consciousness in them, showed them at the same time, by every word he spoke in the pulpit, and by his whole daily life, how that battle was to be fought ; and stood there before them their fellow-soldier and the captain of their band.
Pagina 31 - ... and again under Article 115 the grant may be reduced upon the Inspector's report for faults of registration. 2. In every school there should be (1) a register of admission, progress, and withdrawal ; (2) registers of daily attendance for all scholars ; (3) a book of summaries. These registers...
Pagina 96 - I think I may say, that of all the men we meet with, nine parts of ten are what they are, good or evil, useful or not, by their education.
Pagina 187 - The true sort of captain too for a boys' army, one who had no misgivings and gave no uncertain word of command, and, let who would yield or make truce, would fight the fight out (so every boy felt) to the last gasp and the last drop of blood. Other sides of his character might take hold of and influence boys here and there, but it was this thoroughness and undaunted courage which more than anything else won his way to the hearts of the great mass of those on whom he left his mark, and made them believe...
Pagina 134 - Besides this, there is another connexion of ideas wholly owing to chance or custom: ideas that in themselves are not at all of kin, come to be so united in some men's minds that it is very hard to separate them, they always keep in company, and the one no sooner at any time comes into the understanding but its associate appears with it; and if they are more than two which are thus united, the whole gang, always inseparable, show themselves together.
Pagina 33 - ... holiday" should be written across the columns. 14. At the foot of the attendance columns for each week, or in some place specially provided for them in the registers, should be entered : (a) the number of times the school was open, morning and afternoon ; (6) the total number of attendances made by all the children on this register during the week.

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