Educational Review: A Magazine of the Science and Art of Education and Review of Current Educational Literature and Events, Količina 1

Sprednja platnica
1899
 

Pogosti izrazi in povedi

Priljubljeni odlomki

Stran 472 - compulsory education ' which the people now ask of you is not catechism, but drill. It is not teaching the youth of England the shapes of letters and the tricks of numbers ; and then leaving them to turn their arithmetic to roguery, and their literature to lust. It is, on the contrary, training them into the perfect exercise and kingly continence of their bodies and souls.
Stran 144 - I would gladly have him think that the sun went round the earth, and that the stars were so many spangles set in the bright blue firmament.
Stran 259 - O wad some Power the giftie gie us To see oursels as ithers see us ! It wad frae mony a blunder free us, An...
Stran 134 - This Conference should be, by the help of God, a happy presage for the century which is about to open. It would converge in one powerful focus the efforts of all States which are sincerely seeking to make the great idea of universal peace triumph over the elements of trouble and discord.
Stran 227 - If we inquire what is the real motive for giving boys a classical education, we find it to be simply conformity to public opinion. Men dress their children's minds as they do their bodies, in the prevailing fashion. As the Orinoco Indian puts on his paint before leaving his hut, not with a view to any direct benefit, but because he would be ashamed to be seen without it; so, a boy's drilling in Latin and Greek is insisted on, not because of their intrinsic value, but that he may...
Stran 566 - Committee consisting, as to not less than two-thirds, of persons qualified to represent the views of Universities and other bodies interested in education...
Stran 156 - The education of the child must accord both in mode and arrangement with the education of mankind as considered historically; or in other words, the genesis of knowledge in the individual must follow the same course as the genesis of knowledge in the race.
Stran 473 - ... does not mean teaching people what they do not know. It means teaching them to behave as they do not behave. It is not teaching the youth the shapes of letters and the tricks of numbers, and then leaving them to turn their arithmetic to roguery, and their literature to lust. It means, on the contrary, training them into the perfect exercise and kingly continence of their bodies and souls.
Stran 600 - So ist's mit aller Bildung auch beschaffen. Vergebens werden ungebundne Geister Nach der Vollendung reiner Höhe streben. Wer Großes will, muß sich zusammenraffen. In der Beschränkung zeigt sich erst der Meister, Und das Gesetz nur kann uns Freiheit geben.
Stran 463 - Nothing can possibly be conceived, in the world or out of it, which can be considered good without qualification except a good will . Intelligence, wit, judgement, and the other talents of the mind, however they may be named, or courage, resolution, perseverance, as qualities of temperament, are undoubtedly good and desirable in many respects ; but these 1 For example.

Bibliografski podatki