The School in the Home: Talks with Parents and Teachers on Intensive Child TrainingMoffat, Yard, 1912 - 210 páginas |
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... relation of the vocabulary of the questioner to that of the child . How often parents are puzzled by questions which chil- dren ask about their school work merely be- cause it is put in terms which they do not un- derstand . How often ...
... relation of the vocabulary of the questioner to that of the child . How often parents are puzzled by questions which chil- dren ask about their school work merely be- cause it is put in terms which they do not un- derstand . How often ...
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... relation to sane and sound living later on . Of course the people who do all this do not call them lies . They invent other fictitious terms but the simple fact remains that falsehoods are substituted for the truth . By and by the ...
... relation to sane and sound living later on . Of course the people who do all this do not call them lies . They invent other fictitious terms but the simple fact remains that falsehoods are substituted for the truth . By and by the ...
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... names will prove their peculiar relation to the intellectual interest alluded to , comprising , as they do , Cleopatra , Julius Cæsar , Mark Hanna , King Edward and Queen Alexandra , Lucy and Mary ( standing HARNESSING THE IMAGINATION 121.
... names will prove their peculiar relation to the intellectual interest alluded to , comprising , as they do , Cleopatra , Julius Cæsar , Mark Hanna , King Edward and Queen Alexandra , Lucy and Mary ( standing HARNESSING THE IMAGINATION 121.
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... relations of one kind and another , all of which are the raw materials of thought and springs of action.X Every one of the names in the above list is distinctly connected with the set of ideas which the chil- dren who own these dolls ...
... relations of one kind and another , all of which are the raw materials of thought and springs of action.X Every one of the names in the above list is distinctly connected with the set of ideas which the chil- dren who own these dolls ...
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... relationship is resumed . They start streams of thought in many directions . They open countless conjectures about men , manners and habits of life . They make , al- most without effort , schemes of life and contrasts of appearance ...
... relationship is resumed . They start streams of thought in many directions . They open countless conjectures about men , manners and habits of life . They make , al- most without effort , schemes of life and contrasts of appearance ...
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The School in the Home: Talks with Parents and Teachers on Intensive Child ... Adolf Augustus Berle Visualização integral - 1912 |
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The School in the Home: Talks with Parents and Teachers on Intensive Child ... Adolf Augustus Berle Visualização integral - 1912 |
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Passagens conhecidas
Página 22 - I learnt no Latin until my eighth year. At that time I had read, under my father's tuition, a number of Greek prose authors, among whom I remember the whole of Herodotus, and of Xenophon's Cyropaedia and Memorials of Socrates; some of the lives of the philosophers by Diogenes Laertius; part of Lucian, and Isocrates ad Demonicum and Ad Nicoclem.
Página 96 - Then the first thing will be to establish a censorship of the writers of fiction, and let the censors receive any tale of fiction which is good, and reject the bad; and we will desire mothers and nurses to tell their children the authorised ones only.
Página 22 - I have no remembrance of the time when I began to learn Greek, I have been told that it was when I was three years old. My earliest recollection on the subject, is that of committing to memory what my father termed vocables, being lists of common Greek words, with their signification in English, which he wrote out for me on cards. Of grammar, until some years later, I...
Página 140 - LET a father, then, as soon as his son is born, conceive, first of all, the best possible hopes of him ; for he will thus grow the more solicitous about his improvement from the very beginning ; since it is a complaint without foundation that " to very few people is granted the faculty of comprehending what is imparted to them, and that most, through dulness of understanding, lose their labour and their time.
Página 118 - is due to a child ! If you are contemplating a disgraceful act, despise not your child's tender years, but let your infant son act as a check upon your purpose of sinning. For if, at some future time, he shall have done any thing to deserve the censor's2 wrath, and show himself like you, not in person only and in face, but also the true son of your morals, and one who, by following your footsteps, adds deeper guilt to your crimes — then, forsooth ! you will reprove and chastise him with clamorous...
Página 138 - The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
Página 140 - For, on the contrary, you will find the greater number of men both ready in conceiving and quick in learning; since such quickness is natural to man ; and as birds are born to fly, horses to run, and wild beasts to show fierceness, so to us peculiarly belong activity and sagacity; of understanding ; whence the origin of the mind is thought to be from heaven.
Página 96 - And shall we just carelessly allow children to hear any casual tales which may be devised by casual persons, and to receive into their minds ideas for the most part the very opposite of those which we should wish them to have when they are grown up?
Página 50 - ... mother, whose highest praise it was to take care of her household affairs, and attend to her children. It was customary likewise for each family to choose some elderly female relation of approved conduct, to whose charge the children were committed. In her presence not one indecent word was uttered; nothing was done against propriety and good manners. The hours of study and serious employment were settled by her direction; and not only so, but even the diversions of the children were conducted...
Página 119 - On the other hand, when I spoke to persons whom I met in general society, I found an entirely different disposition to prevail. Many men and a yet larger number of women, and many boys and girls, declared that they habitually saw mental imagery, and that it was perfectly distinct to them and full of colour.