Prize Essay and Lectures, Delivered Before the American Institute of Instruction ... Including the Journal of Proceedings, Volumen49American Institute of Instruction, 1879 List of members included in each volume, beginning with 1891. |
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... language so as to speak it fluently , you must learn it by asso- ciating thought with its audible signs , and your ... English into German from a book . But there is another phase of this subject : there are those who wish to study a language ...
... language so as to speak it fluently , you must learn it by asso- ciating thought with its audible signs , and your ... English into German from a book . But there is another phase of this subject : there are those who wish to study a language ...
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... language is studied without grammar or dictionary . The teacher simply takes the place of both . Suppose a pupil ... English is the language of America . Foreigners must learn it if they want to talk with us , and they do learn it enough ...
... language is studied without grammar or dictionary . The teacher simply takes the place of both . Suppose a pupil ... English is the language of America . Foreigners must learn it if they want to talk with us , and they do learn it enough ...
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... language , but with every lesson he gets a kind of instruction in the use of his mother tongue , which nothing else can supply . Every page of Xenophon , Homer , Cæsar , Cicero , Molière , or La Fontaine , translated carefully into English ...
... language , but with every lesson he gets a kind of instruction in the use of his mother tongue , which nothing else can supply . Every page of Xenophon , Homer , Cæsar , Cicero , Molière , or La Fontaine , translated carefully into English ...
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... English word house , either spoken or thought , the men- tal picture of that which is called in one language house , and in the other maison . Before that direct presentation can be made , the pupil must have seen or heard or used the ...
... English word house , either spoken or thought , the men- tal picture of that which is called in one language house , and in the other maison . Before that direct presentation can be made , the pupil must have seen or heard or used the ...
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... English language well , to write with despatch a neat , legible hand , and be master of the first four rules of arithmetic , so as to dispose of at once , with accuracy , every question of figures which comes up in prac- tice , I call ...
... English language well , to write with despatch a neat , legible hand , and be master of the first four rules of arithmetic , so as to dispose of at once , with accuracy , every question of figures which comes up in prac- tice , I call ...
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Página 10 - Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours ; And ask them, what report they bore to heaven ; And how they might have borne more welcome news.
Página 81 - I see one vast Confederation stretching from the frozen North in unbroken line to the glowing South, and from the wild billows of the Atlantic, westward to the calmer waters of the Pacific main — and I see one people, and one law, and one language, and one faith, and over all that wide continent, the home of freedom, and a refuge for the oppressed of every race and of every clime.
Página 114 - Individuals who, without the aid of knowledge, would have been condemned to perpetual inferiority of condition, and subjected to all the evils of want and poverty, rise to competence and independence by the uplifting power of education.
Página 81 - I have another and a far brighter vision before my gaze. It may be but a vision, but I will cherish it. I see one vast confederation stretching from the frozen North in unbroken line to the glowing South, and from the wild billows of the Atlantic westward to the calmer waters of the Pacific main, — and I see one people, and one language, and one law, and one faith, and, over all that wide continent, the home of freedom, and a refuge for the oppressed of every race and of every clime.
Página 99 - That it is not competent under the Constitution and the law, as it existed at the date of the passage of said act, to go into evidence aliunde the papers opened by the President of the Senate in the presence of the two Houses...
Página 140 - A more lying, roundabout, puzzle-headed delusion than that by which we confuse the clear instincts of truth in our accursed system of spelling was never concocted by the father of falsehood.
Página 140 - How can a system of education flourish that begins by so monstrous a falsehood, which the sense of hearing suffices to contradict ? No wonder that the hornbook is the despair of mothers ! " From this instance, the reader will perceive that Dr.
Página 113 - In great establishments, and among large bodies of laboring men, where all services are rated according to their pecuniary value, where there are no extrinsic circumstances to bind a man down to a fixed position, after he has shown a capacity to rise above it — where, indeed, men pass by each other, ascending or descending in their grades of labor, just as easily and certainly as particles of water of different degrees of temperature glide by each other...
Página 109 - The first of these is the influence of slavery, which once permeated the entire country with degrading views of labor. It will take a hundred years to recover from the influence of the slave code with its "mudsill
Página 143 - The scool board for London took up the matter and issued a circular asking others to unite in an address to the Education Department in favor of it. The Liverpool and Bradford boards had acted before, and more than a hundred other boards returnd favorabl replies.