The Essentials of Teaching: A Book for Amateurs

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Longmans, Green, 1916 - 250 sidor

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Sida 233 - Within himself, from more to more; Or, crown'd with attributes of woe Like glories, move his course, and show That life is not as idle ore, But iron dug from central gloom, And heated hot with burning fears, And dipt in baths of hissing tears, And batter'd with the shocks of doom To shape and use.
Sida 96 - Obedient to this summons there ranged themselves in front of the schoolmaster's desk, half-a-dozen scarecrows, out at knees and elbows, one of whom placed a torn and filthy book beneath his learned eye. "This is the first class in English spelling and philosophy, Nickleby," said Squeers, beckoning Nicholas to stand beside him.
Sida 53 - Here is a kind of attraction which in the mental world will be found to have as extraordinary effects as in the natural, and to show itself in as many and as various forms.
Sida 197 - My faith would lay her hand On that dear head of thine, While like a penitent I stand And there confess my sin.
Sida 96 - Please, sir, he's cleaning the back parlour window," said the temporary head of the philosophical class. "So he is, to be sure," rejoined Squeers. "We go upon the practical mode of teaching, Nickleby; the regular education system. C-1-ean, clean, verb active, to make bright, to scour. Win, win, der, der, winder, a casement. When the boy knows this out of book, he goes and does it. It's just the same principle as the use of the globes. Where's the second boy?" "Please, sir, he's weeding the garden,"...
Sida 199 - Our song and feast shall flow To the fame of your name, When the storm has ceased to blow, — When the fiery fight is heard no more, And the storm has ceased to blow.
Sida 96 - To be sure," said Squeers, by no means disconcerted. "So he is. Bot, bot, tin, tin, bottin, ney, ney, bottinney, noun substantive, a knowledge of plants.
Sida 23 - Learning is the knowledge of that which none but the learned know. He is the most learned man who knows the most of what is farthest removed from common life and actual observation, that is of the least practical utility, and least liable to be brought to the test of experience, and that, having been handed down through the greatest number of intermediate stages...
Sida 111 - ... Well, now, since this is not the line on which to draw the square we wanted, tell me how long it should be ?" "Indeed, sir, I don't know." "Now observe, Meno, what has happened to this boy; you see he did not know at first, neither does he yet know. But he then answered boldly, because he fancied he knew ; now he is quite at a loss, and though he is still as ignorant as before, he does not think he knows." Meno replies, "What you say is quite true, Socrates.
Sida 52 - Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves is as true of personal habits as of money.

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