Routine and Ideals: By Le Baron Russell BriggsHoughton, Mifflin, 1904 - 232 páginas |
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... teach him Latin ? He was to be a scientific man , and needed some language beside his own : yet how could he learn a foreign language ? how could he learn his own language ? how could he learn anything from a book ? how was he training ...
... teach him Latin ? He was to be a scientific man , and needed some language beside his own : yet how could he learn a foreign language ? how could he learn his own language ? how could he learn anything from a book ? how was he training ...
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... Teach him , whatever he does , to do it as well as he can . Then show him how next time he can do 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 ...
... Teach him , whatever he does , to do it as well as he can . Then show him how next time he can do 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 ...
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... teaching a girl to sweep , you do not let her sweep the lint under the table . Why , if you are teaching a child to study , should you let him study in a slovenly way ? Why , for instance , should you teach him reading without spelling ...
... teaching a girl to sweep , you do not let her sweep the lint under the table . Why , if you are teaching a child to study , should you let him study in a slovenly way ? Why , for instance , should you teach him reading without spelling ...
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... teacher . Shakspere is the greatest of poets , and hence one of the greatest inspirers of men . Why is n't it better to cut Professor X's lecture and read Shak- spere , or even to read Kipling ? " First and obviously , because you can ...
... teacher . Shakspere is the greatest of poets , and hence one of the greatest inspirers of men . Why is n't it better to cut Professor X's lecture and read Shak- spere , or even to read Kipling ? " First and obviously , because you can ...
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... teaching be used towards him , as his faculties expand , with this simple purpose . Hence it is that critical scholar- ship is so important a discipline for him when he is leaving school for the Uni- versity . A second science is the ...
... teaching be used towards him , as his faculties expand , with this simple purpose . Hence it is that critical scholar- ship is so important a discipline for him when he is leaving school for the Uni- versity . A second science is the ...
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Página 17 - The great thing, then, in all education is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy. It is to fund and capitalize our acquisitions, and live at ease upon the interest of the fund. For this we must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can...
Página 123 - And I am sure that I never read any memorable news in a newspaper. If we read of one man robbed, or murdered, or killed by accident, or one house burned, or one vessel wrecked, or one steamboat blown up, or one cow run over on the Western Railroad, or one mad dog killed, or one lot of grasshoppers in the winter, — we never need read of another. One is enough.
Página 85 - Spring still makes spring in the mind When sixty years are told : Love wakes anew this throbbing heart, And we are never old. Over the winter glaciers I see the summer glow, And through the wild-piled snowdrift, The warm rosebuds below.
Página 17 - There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision, and for whom the lighting of every cigar, the drinking of every cup, the time of rising and going to bed every day, and the beginning of every bit of work, are subjects of express volitional deliberation. Full half the time of such a man goes to the deciding, or regretting, of matters which ought to be so ingrained in him as practically not to exist for his consciousness at all. If there be such daily duties...
Página 71 - Let me go where'er I will I hear a sky-born music still : It sounds from all things old, It sounds from all things young, From all that's fair, from all that's foul, Peals out a cheerful song. It is not only in the rose, It is not only in the bird, Not only where the rainbow glows, Nor in the song of woman heard, But in the darkest, meanest things There alway, alway something sings.
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.
Página 84 - A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. 'Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.
Página 76 - So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can...
Página 67 - Though love repine, and reason chafe, There came a voice without reply, — "Tis man's perdition to be safe, When for the truth he ought to die.
Página 111 - Because a man has shop to mind In time and place, since flesh must live, Needs spirit lack all life behind, All stray thoughts, fancies fugitive, All loves except what trade can give?