The Science and Art of Teaching: Or, The Principles and Practice of Education

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Copp, Clark & Company, 1875 - 307 strani
 

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Stran 160 - Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him (xxii.
Stran 56 - For blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, And, though a late, a sure reward succeeds.
Stran 160 - Chasten thy son while there is hope, and let not thy soul spare for his crying.
Stran 285 - ... and while many years are spent by a girl in those decorative acquirements which fit her for evening parties; not an hour is spent by either of them in preparation for that gravest of all responsibilities — the management of a family.
Stran 285 - Certainly not : of all functions which the adult has to fulfil, this is the most difficult. Is it that each may be trusted by self-instruction to fit himself, or herself, for the office of parent ? No : not only is the need for such self-instruction unrecognized, but the complexity of the subject renders it the one of all others in which selfinstruction is least likely to succeed.
Stran 285 - ... the position of parents. While it is seen that for the purpose of gaining a livelihood, an elaborate preparation is needed, it appears to be thought that for the bringing up of children, no preparation whatever is needed. While many years are spent by a boy in gaining knowledge, of which the chief value...
Stran 278 - No threats : but a silent, rigorous performance. If a child runs a pin into its finger, pain follows. If it does it again, there is again the same result : and so on perpetually. In all its dealings with surrounding inorganic nature it finds this unswerving persistence, which listens to no excuse, and from which there is no appeal ; and very soon recognizing this stern though beneficent discipline, it becomes extremely careful not to transgress.
Stran 160 - The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame.
Stran 285 - No rational plea can be put forward for leaving the Art of Education out of our curriculum. Whether as bearing upon the happiness of parents themselves, or whether as affecting the characters and lives of their children and remote descendants, we must admit that a knowledge of the right methods of juvenile culture, physical, intellectual and moral, is a knowledge second to none in importance. This topic should occupy the highest and last place in the course of instruction passed through by each man...

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