Life and Works of Horace Mann, Volume 3Lee and Shepard, 1891 |
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Página 263 - And they blessed Rebekah, and said unto her, Thou art our sister, be thou the mother of thousands of millions, and let thy seed possess the gate of those which hate them.
Página 143 - he doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men;" and if, in all things, the race should obey the physical laws of God, they would no more suffer physical pain, than they would suffer remorse, or moral pain, if in all things they would obey the moral laws of God. This subject has its merits, which should command the attention of the statesman and political economist.
Página 353 - I have said that I saw no teacher sitting in his school: aged or young, all stood. Nor did they stand apart and aloof in sullen dignity. They mingled with their pupils, passing rapidly from one side of the class to the other, animating, encouraging, sympathizing, breathing life into less active natures, assuring the timid, distributing encouragement and endearment to all. The looks of the Prussian teacher often have the expression and vivacity of an actor in a play. He gesticulates like an orator....
Página 333 - The next moment I heard a succession of small strokes or taps, so rapid as to be almost indistinguishable ; and hardly had my eye time to discern a large number of dots made along the margins of the rivers, when the shout of Lintz, Vienna, Prague, Dresden, Berlin, &c, struck my ear.
Página 332 - The practice seemed to be uniform, however, of beginning with objects perfectly familiar to the child, — the schoolhouse with the grounds around it, the home with its yards or gardens, and the street leading from the one to the other.
Página 355 - In Prussia and in Saxony, as well as in Scotland, the power of commanding and retaining the attention of a class is held to be a sine qua non in a teacher's qualifications. If he has not talent, skill, vivacity, or resources of anecdote and wit, sufficient to arouse and retain the attention of his pupils during the accustomed period of recitation, he is deemed to have mistaken his calling, and receives a significant hint to change his vocation.
Página 390 - The commissioners in 1812 recommended the appointment of a Board of this description, to superintend a system of education, from which should be banished even the suspicion of proselytism, and which, admitting children of all religious persuasions, should not interfere with the peculiar tenets of any.
Página 72 - According to the school census of last year, the whole number of children in the State between the ages of four and sixteen was...