Routine and IdealsHoughton, Mifflin and Company, 1904 - 232 páginas |
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... better for obedience , why should we give them full swing in the choice of a time for doing sums or for learning to read ? If we do not insist that a boy shall brush his hair till he longs to have it smooth , and if then we brush it for ...
... better for obedience , why should we give them full swing in the choice of a time for doing sums or for learning to read ? If we do not insist that a boy shall brush his hair till he longs to have it smooth , and if then we brush it for ...
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... better ; and when next time comes , make him do better . How- ever short the school hours may be , however much outside of the school may rouse or charm his mind , make him feel that school standards are high , that school work is to be ...
... better ; and when next time comes , make him do better . How- ever short the school hours may be , however much outside of the school may rouse or charm his mind , make him feel that school standards are high , that school work is to be ...
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... better to cut Professor X's lecture and read Shak- spere , or even to read Kipling ? " First and obviously , because you can read Shakspere at another time , whereas Pro- fessor X's lecture is given at a fixed hour , is part of a course ...
... better to cut Professor X's lecture and read Shak- spere , or even to read Kipling ? " First and obviously , because you can read Shakspere at another time , whereas Pro- fessor X's lecture is given at a fixed hour , is part of a course ...
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... better than a story - book . Hence , too , Metrical Composition , when he reads Poetry ; in order to stimulate his powers into action in every practicable way , and to prevent a merely passive reception of images and ideas which in that ...
... better than a story - book . Hence , too , Metrical Composition , when he reads Poetry ; in order to stimulate his powers into action in every practicable way , and to prevent a merely passive reception of images and ideas which in that ...
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... better than he knows how . In a few instances every man in a team plays better than he knows how . Older people can hardly appreciate the stimulus to every power of mind and body in a great athletic contest . Here is work in which youth ...
... better than he knows how . In a few instances every man in a team plays better than he knows how . Older people can hardly appreciate the stimulus to every power of mind and body in a great athletic contest . Here is work in which youth ...
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Página 81 - We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds." "If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts and there abide, the huge world will come round to him."
Página 81 - Man is timid and apologetic; he is no longer upright; he dares not say, ' I think,' ' I am,' but quotes some saint or sage. He is ashamed before the blade of grass or the blowing rose. These roses under my window make no reference to former roses or to better ones ; they are for what they are; they exist with God to-day.
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Página 82 - and I shall know you. Do your work and you shall reinforce yourself. Do that which is assigned you, and you cannot hope too much or dare too much.
Página 82 - The distinction and end of a soundly constituted man is his labor. Use is inscribed on all his faculties. Use is the end to which he exists. As the tree exists for its fruit, so a man for his work. A fruitless plant, an idle animal, does not stand in the universe.
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