The Instructor's Manual: Or, Lectures on School-keeping

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J. P. Jewett, 1852 - 233 sidor

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Sida 222 - They are all plain to him that understandeth, and right to them that find knowledge. Receive my instruction, and not silver; and knowledge rather than choice gold. For wisdom is better than rubies; and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to it.
Sida 35 - Here they should be lavish, whilst they straiten themselves in every thing else. They should wear the cheapest clothes, live on the plainest food, if they can in no other way secure to their families the best instruction. They should have no anxiety to accumulate property for their children, provided they can place them under influences, which will awaken their faculties, inspire them with pure and high principles, and fit them to bear a manly, useful, and honorable part in the world. No language...
Sida 35 - There is no office higher than that of a teacher of youth; for there is nothing on earth so precious as the mind, soul, character of the child. No office should be regarded with greater respect. The first minds in the community should be encouraged to assume it.
Sida 101 - I trust their zeal has stirred up many to remember their Creator in the days of their youth, and to redeem the time, even in the midst of an evil and adulterous generation.
Sida 14 - In truth, the ministry now accomplishes little for want of that early intellectual and moral discipline, by which alone a community can be prepared to distinguish truth from falsehood, to comprehend the instructions of the pulpit, to receive higher and broader views of duty, and to apply general REMARKS ON EDUCATION. 377 principles to the diversified details of life.
Sida 82 - The best window is that which least intercepts the prospect ; and he is the best reader, who brings before us the mind of the author, unencumbered by the tints and tracery of his own style and manner. Still it must be remembered that, with most persons, reading is an art. The best readers are those who have most diligently studied their art ; studied it so well, that you do not perceive they have ever studied it at all.
Sida 75 - ... human nature and the character of those minds upon which he has to act; when he explores deliberately the nature of the field which he has to cultivate, and of the objects which he wishes to accomplish, and applies means judiciously and skillfully adapted to the object, he must necessarily take a strong interest in his work.
Sida 14 - Gospel, we believe that it must yield in importance to the office of training the young. In truth, the ministry now accomplishes little for want of that early intellectual and moral discipline, by which alone a community can be prepared to distinguish truth from falsehood, to comprehend the instructions of the pulpit, to receive higher and broader views of duty, and to apply general principles to the diversified details of life. A body of cultivated men, devoted, with their whole hearts, to the improvement...
Sida 164 - Yes, my dear," said he, kindly. "It is because numbers increase from right to left in a decimal ratio." Laura sat and repeated it to herself two or three times, and then looked very sad. The master, as soon as he had answered, pursued his other business and did not notice her. But she was disappointed. She understood him no better than if he had used words of another language. "Decimal
Sida 95 - ... or science of education ; of which the art of communicating is only one part or division. You will readily perceive that it is an attainment perfectly distinct from any particular plan or system ; and also a very different thing from what is usually termed tact in teaching. It is in fact, the art of so communicating knowledge, that the pupil shall, as far as possible, comprehend in all its relations, the truth sought to be imparted ; and that, associating what is thus received, with other and...

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