Prize Essay and Lectures, Delivered Before the American Institute of Instruction ... Including the Journal of Proceedings ..., Volume 47List of members included in each volume, beginning with 1891. |
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Pagina vii
... present . He referred in commendatory terms to a bill before the New York Legislature to pension teachers at the close of their professional career , or to retire teach- ers on half - pay . The teacher is in public service , on small ...
... present . He referred in commendatory terms to a bill before the New York Legislature to pension teachers at the close of their professional career , or to retire teach- ers on half - pay . The teacher is in public service , on small ...
Pagina xviii
... present prepared explicitely to know . Let them do their appropriate work , and they will soon know and understand what at first they can only do . This principle applies with special emphasis to our methods of teaching children to read ...
... present prepared explicitely to know . Let them do their appropriate work , and they will soon know and understand what at first they can only do . This principle applies with special emphasis to our methods of teaching children to read ...
Pagina 16
... present for the pupil's con- sideration , that the general subject may be brought be- fore the mind previously to any extended description . What , and where is it ? This would be my first ques- tion , or topic . What other lands , what ...
... present for the pupil's con- sideration , that the general subject may be brought be- fore the mind previously to any extended description . What , and where is it ? This would be my first ques- tion , or topic . What other lands , what ...
Pagina 23
... present . Two causes , it seems to me , combine to produce this state of affairs . The first is , that many of our teachers never saw their teachers make any very familiar use of the globe . The second is , that so many of our school ...
... present . Two causes , it seems to me , combine to produce this state of affairs . The first is , that many of our teachers never saw their teachers make any very familiar use of the globe . The second is , that so many of our school ...
Pagina 26
... present to you anything profound , had I the ability , but to add to the variety of the papers presented here by bringing to your minds the every - day , matter - of - fact work of the common school . In closing , then , let me say that ...
... present to you anything profound , had I the ability , but to add to the variety of the papers presented here by bringing to your minds the every - day , matter - of - fact work of the common school . In closing , then , let me say that ...
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Pagina xvi - 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.
Pagina 94 - So spake the Seraph Abdiel, faithful found; Among the faithless faithful only he ; Among innumerable false unmoved, Unshaken, unseduced, unterrified, His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal ; 900 Nor number nor example with him wrought To swerve from truth, or change his constant mind, Though single.
Pagina 73 - I have filled him with the spirit of God, in wisdom, and in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship, to devise cunning works, to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass, and in cutting of stones, to set them, and in carving of timber, to work in all mannet of workmanship.
Pagina 58 - I cannot refrain from adding that the collection of tracts, which we call from their excellence the Scriptures, contain (independently of a Divine origin) more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, purer morality, more important history, and finer strains both of poetry and eloquence, than could be collected within the same compass from all other books that were ever composed in any age or in any idiom.
Pagina 97 - ... bring up, so as to escape his censure. I learnt from him, that poetry, even that of the loftiest, and, seemingly, that of the wildest odes, had a logic of its own, as severe as that of science ; and more difficult, because more subtle, more complex, and dependent on more, and more fugitive, causes. In the truly great poets, he would say, there is a reason assignable, not only for every word, but for the position of every word...
Pagina 63 - We spake of many a vanished scene, Of what we once had thought and said, Of what had been, and might have been, And who was changed, and who was dead...
Pagina 101 - A man should love and venerate his native language, as the first of his benefactors, as the awakener and stirrer of all his thoughts, the frame and mould and rule of his spiritual being, as the great bond and...
Pagina 96 - The reading of the works of two men, neither of them imbued with the spirit of modern science, neither of them, indeed, friendly to that spirit, has placed me here to-day.
Pagina 77 - College for the purpose of founding, under the direction and government of the corporation, overseers, and governors of that university, a new institution and professorship, in order to teach by regular courses of academical and public lectures, accompanied with proper experiments, the utility of the physical and mathematical sciences for the improvement of the useful arts, and for the extension of the industry, prosperity, happiness, and well-being of society.
Pagina 71 - And tears are on the mother's face, As parting with a long embrace She enters other realms of love ; Her office there to rear, to teach, Becoming as is meet and fit A link among the days, to knit The generations each with each...