Nature Study: Its Psychology, Method and Matter

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Sutherland printing house, 1902 - 42 من الصفحات
 

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الصفحة 33 - Saw the rainbow in the heaven, In the eastern sky the rainbow, Whispered, "What is that, Nokomis?
الصفحة 33 - Many things Nokomis taught him Of the stars that shine in heaven; Showed him Ishkoodah, the comet, Ishkoodah, with fiery tresses; Showed the Death-Dance of the spirits, Warriors with their plumes and war-clubs, Flaring far away to northward In the frosty nights of Winter; Showed the broad white road in heaven, Pathway of the ghosts, the shadows, Running straight across the heavens, Crowded with the ghosts, the shadows. At the door on summer evenings Sat the little Hiawatha; Heard the whispering of...
الصفحة 34 - Of all beasts he learned the language, learned their names and all their secrets, How the beavers built their lodges, Where the squirrels hid their acorns, How the reindeer ran so swiftly, Why the rabbit was so timid, Talked with them whene'er he met them, Called them
الصفحة 15 - In all pedagogy the great thing is to strike the iron while hot, and to seize the wave of the pupil's interest in each successive subject before its ebb has come, so that knowledge may be got and a habit of skill acquired — a headway of interest, in short, secured, on which afterward the individual may float.
الصفحة 17 - Blue. I DO not own an inch of land, But all I see is mine — The orchard and the mowing-fields, The lawns and gardens fine. The winds my tax-collectors are, They bring me tithes divine — • Wild scents and subtle essences, A tribute rare and free : And more magnificent than all, My window keeps for me A glimpse of blue immensity— A little strip of sea.
الصفحة 17 - Lo, the poor Indian, whose untutored mind Sees God in clouds, and hears Him in the wind...
الصفحة 15 - ... interest in each successive subject before its ebb has come, so that knowledge may be got and a habit of skill acquired — a headway of interest, in short, secured, on which afterward the individual may float. There is a happy moment for fixing skill in drawing, for making boys collectors...
الصفحة 29 - This definition, he claims, and the claim must be allowed, puts the meaning of education within the educative process, and in a certain sense identifies the process with the aim. The attainment of the aim is found in the continuance of the process. The social aim of education...
الصفحة 3 - Mind grows only in so far as it finds expression for itself; it cannot find it through a foreign tongue. It is round the language learned at the mother's knee that the whole life of feeling, emotion, thought, gathers. If it were possible for a child or boy to live in two languages at once equally well, so much the worse.
الصفحة 15 - ... then for initiating them into the harmonies of mechanics and the wonders of physical and chemical law. Later. introspective psychology and the metaphysical and religious mysteries take their turn: and. last of alL the drama of human affairs and worldly wisdom in the widest sense of the term. In each of us a saturation-point is soon reached in all these things: the impetus of our purely intellectual...

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