The Quarterly Journal of Education, Volume 2Charles Knight, 1831 |
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... hand , it might often happen that a man of superior powers would be withheld altogether from being a candidate for honours , if he doubted or despaired of standing first . On the whole , the fairest statement , perhaps , of the two ...
... hand , it might often happen that a man of superior powers would be withheld altogether from being a candidate for honours , if he doubted or despaired of standing first . On the whole , the fairest statement , perhaps , of the two ...
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... hand , the utility of having gone through the experiment , as it were , of actually examining some of the ancient records , for the greater part of which he may , perhaps , nevertheless be content to derive his information from others ...
... hand , the utility of having gone through the experiment , as it were , of actually examining some of the ancient records , for the greater part of which he may , perhaps , nevertheless be content to derive his information from others ...
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... hand . The exclusion of all , besides these lectures , from the subjects of the examination , makes this object the more sure , because it takes away the student's chance of making up for the neglect of them by the display of ...
... hand . The exclusion of all , besides these lectures , from the subjects of the examination , makes this object the more sure , because it takes away the student's chance of making up for the neglect of them by the display of ...
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... hand , the English student exchanges the indisputable advantage of an animating and alluring delivery on the teacher's part , for the privilege of forming his own judgment , and being left at the mercy of his doubts and apprehensions ...
... hand , the English student exchanges the indisputable advantage of an animating and alluring delivery on the teacher's part , for the privilege of forming his own judgment , and being left at the mercy of his doubts and apprehensions ...
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... hand as the absence of public spirit . These are the principal sources of a vexatious and constantly - recurring occurrence of scenes which are infinitely disgraceful to a seat of learning . Such evils are unknown under the immovable ...
... hand as the absence of public spirit . These are the principal sources of a vexatious and constantly - recurring occurrence of scenes which are infinitely disgraceful to a seat of learning . Such evils are unknown under the immovable ...
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Página 226 - I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragon's teeth: and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book: who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye.
Página 226 - And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book: Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye. Many a man lives a burden to the earth; but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
Página 226 - For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.
Página 254 - We seek to prevent, in some measure, the extension of the penal code, by inspiring a salutary and conservative principle of virtue, and of knowledge, in an early age. We hope to excite a feeling of respectability, and a sense of character, by enlarging the capacity, and increasing the sphere of intellectual enjoyment. By general instruction, we seek, as far as possible, to purify the whole moral atmosphere; to keep good sentiments uppermost, and to turn the strong current of feeling and opinion,...
Página 120 - I have taken so much pain : but I believe I might be bold to affirm, that he hath written the profitablest story of all authors. For all other were fain to take their matter, as the fortune of the countries...
Página 171 - In the second place, when proper books are put into the hands of the scholars, every article, which they read, may be made the means, not only of forming in their youthful minds the invaluable habit of attention, but also of communicating to them, along with facility in the art of reading, much information, which is both adapted to their present age, and may be of use to them the rest of their lives.
Página 255 - We do not, indeed, expect all men to be philosophers or statesmen; but we confidently trust, and our expectation of the duration of our system of government rests on that trust, that by the diffusion of general knowledge and good and virtuous sentiments, the political fabric may be secure, as well against open violence and overthrow, as against the slow but sure undermining of licentiousness.
Página 254 - For the purpose of public instruction, we hold every man subject to taxation in proportion to his property, and we look not to the question, whether he himself have, or have not, children to be benefited by the education for which he pays. We regard it as a wise and liberal system of police, by which property, and life, and the peace of society are secured. We seek to prevent, in some measure, the extension of the penal code, by inspiring a salutary and conservative principle of virtue and of knowledge...
Página 81 - There they would learn reading, &c. ; great part of the lessons, exclusive of scriptural instruction, would consist of explanations respecting the objects, animate and inanimate, in the garden, taken from books adapted to this purpose. Besides gardening, the children should be taught such trades as local and other circumstances might render desirable : masonry, shoemaking, tailor's, carpenter's, blacksmith's work — netting, knitting, &c. : some of these might form also direct subjects of instruction.
Página 158 - ... conventionally represented. It was found that pupils -trained on these principles were themselves enabled to deduce the practical rules of arithmetical calculation from the very examples on which their minds had been previously exercised. . . This may be a slow process ; but it has been well observed, that " when the true end of intellectual education shall be admitted to be, first, the attainment of mental power, and then the application of it to practical and scientific purposes, that plan...