The National Teacher: A Monthly Educational Journal, Volume 1

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E.E. White, 1871

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Página 2 - Eyes and no eyes" is the title of an old story ; and it scarcely seems too strong a way of marking the difference between the powers of perception of a cultivated naturalist, and those of the ordinary gentleman ignorant of everything in nature. To the one the stars of heaven, and the stones on earth, the forms of the hills, and the flowers in the hedges, are a constant source of that great and peculiar pleasure derived from intelligence. And day by day do I see how boys increase their range of sight,...
Página 407 - The exaltation of talent, as it is called, above virtue and religion, is the curse of the age. Education is now chiefly a stimulus to learning, and thus men acquire power without the principles which alone make it a good. Talent is worshipped ; but, if divorced from rectitude, it will prove more of a demon than a god.
Página 65 - ... minute details, and the time to be devoted to each part, the order in which the steps are to be taken, and even the methods of teaching, are definitely and authoritatively prescribed. As a result the teacher is not free to teach according to his 'conscience and power...
Página 16 - As it is usually managed, it is a dreadful task indeed to learn, and, if possible, a more dreadful task to teach to read, With the help of counters, and coaxing, and gingerbread, or...
Página 452 - The effects of music are sometimes said to be merely sensual. It is addressed to the ear, indeed ; but all the influences which we receive from without are conveyed through the medium of the senses, and the tones of music often speak a language to the soul richer in meaning than any words. It will hardly be pretended that feelings which cannot be expressed in words, are necessarily of a lower character than those which may be so expressed.
Página 357 - Westward the course of empire takes its way ; The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day — Time's noblest offspring is the last.
Página 546 - ... the Polytechnic Institute have in a remarkable manner unified and fraternized the people of these twenty-five cantons. Though separate in race, religion and language, they are one in national sympathy and interest, proud of their history, and prouder still of their recent progress and manufacturing prosperity. While beggars are found everywhere in Europe, there is less pauperism in Switzerland than in any other nation on the continent. With no communism, there is still a general diffusion of...
Página 431 - Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Why then is not the health of the daughter of my peopic recovered?
Página 109 - Prove that the area of the regular inscribed dodecagon is equal to three times the square of the radius of the circumscribed circle.
Página 67 - ... sacrificing their professional freedom and progress. An experienced superintendent once remarked that his chief business was to keep his teachers out of the ruts. To this end the superintendent must be qualified to instruct, inspire, and lead teachers in the work of professional improvement, and his supervision must be flexible enough to allow free investigation and experiment. It is true that a corps of teachers, imbued with such an earnest spirit of inquiry and progress, will run in no one's...

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