The Mother in EducationMcBride, Nast, 1914 - 335 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 333 - There is always a best way of doing everything, if it be to boil an egg. Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each once a stroke of genius or of love — now repeated and hardened into usage. They form at last a rich varnish, with which the routine of life is washed, and its details adorned.
الصفحة 333 - Give a boy address and accomplishments," says Emerson, " and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes wherever he goes; he has not the trouble of earning or owning them; they solicit him to enter and possess.
الصفحة 333 - There are certain manners which are learned in good society, of that force that if a person have them, he or she must be considered, and is everywhere welcome, though without beauty, or wealth, or genius. Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes. He has not the trouble of earning or owning them, they solicit him to enter and possess.
الصفحة 307 - The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy. It is to fund and capitalize our acquisitions, and live at ease upon the interest of the fund. For this we must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can, and guard against the growing into ways that are likely to be disadvantageous to us, as we should guard against the plague.
الصفحة 184 - The art of seeing Nature, or in other words, the art of using Models, is in reality the great object, the point to which all our Studies are directed.
الصفحة 210 - ... intelligence of the child ; so it is by conversation, or, to call it by its technical name, oral instruction, that the teacher is to continue the process which the parent has begun. By this method alone is it possible to give the child a stimulus to attention ; for it interposes nothing between the child and the living voice of his instructor to prevent the full play of that mutual sympathy which is the very breath of the school life.
الصفحة 201 - All the triumphs of truth and genius over prejudice and power, in every country and in every age, have been the triumphs of Athens. Wherever a few great minds have made a stand against violence and fraud, in the cause of liberty and reason, there has been her spirit in the midst of them; inspiring, encouraging, consoling; — by the lonely lamp of Erasmus, by the restless bed...
الصفحة 207 - The final aim of instruction," says Herbart, " is morality. But the nearer aim which instruction in particular must set before itself in order to reach the final one, is many-sidedness of...
الصفحة 296 - and I will tell you what you are, at least as regards your talents, tastes, and character.