Twelve Lectures on the History of Pedagogy: Delivered Before the Cincinnati Teachers' Association

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American Book Company, 1874 - 122 páginas
 

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Página 65 - As the strength of the body lies chiefly in being able to endure hardships, so also does that of the mind. And the great principle and foundation of all virtue and worth is placed in this, that a man is able to deny himself his own desires, cross his own inclinations, and purely follow what reason directs as best, though the appetite lean the other way.
Página 64 - This consideration should methinks keep busy people (I will not say ignorant nurses and boddice-makers) from meddling in a matter they understand not; and they should be afraid to put nature out of her way, in fashioning the parts, when. they know not how the least and meanest is made. And yet I have seen so many instances of children receiving great harm from...
Página 64 - A SOUND mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world. He that has these two has little more to wish for; and he that wants either of them will be but little the better for anything else.
Página 57 - Pictus" which I shall have occasion to mention again hereafter. Comenius was by no means one of those pedagogues who take up one or another single subject of instruction, or who place all good in a certain method of teaching. He was, in the very best sense of the word, universal; and notwithstanding this universality, he always strove after the most thorough foundation.

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