Annual Reports of the Secretary of the Board of Education of Massachusetts for the Years 1839-1844Lee and Shepard Publishers, 1891 |
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Página 304 - ... activity, and which, if not usefully, are liable to be mischievously employed. Subsequent improvements in the art of teaching have consisted in supplying interesting and useful, instead of mischievous occupation, for these senses, muscles and faculties. Experience has now proved that it is much easier to furnish profitable and delightful employment for all these powers, than it is to stand over them with a rod and stifle their workings, or to assume a thousand shapes of fear to guard the thousand...
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