Dickens as an EducatorD. Appleton, 1900 - 319 páginas |
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... means of forming good or bad citizens , and miserable or happy men , this class of schools long afforded a notable example . Although any man who had proved his unfitness for any other occupation in life , was free , without examination ...
... means of forming good or bad citizens , and miserable or happy men , this class of schools long afforded a notable example . Although any man who had proved his unfitness for any other occupation in life , was free , without examination ...
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... means of healthy growth . The frolic of childhood is not pure exuberance and waste . " There is often a high meaning in childish play , " said Froebel . Let us study it , and act upon hints - or more than hints - that Nature gives ...
... means of healthy growth . The frolic of childhood is not pure exuberance and waste . " There is often a high meaning in childish play , " said Froebel . Let us study it , and act upon hints - or more than hints - that Nature gives ...
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... means for the free action of every joint and limb . What is done for the body is done in the same spirit for the mind , and ideas are formed , not by song only . The begin- ning of a most ingenious course of mental training by a series ...
... means for the free action of every joint and limb . What is done for the body is done in the same spirit for the mind , and ideas are formed , not by song only . The begin- ning of a most ingenious course of mental training by a series ...
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... means of play - is given for only two or three hours in the day ; such instruction sets each child , if reasonably helped at home , in the right train of education for the remainder of its time . An Infant Garden must be held in a large ...
... means of play - is given for only two or three hours in the day ; such instruction sets each child , if reasonably helped at home , in the right train of education for the remainder of its time . An Infant Garden must be held in a large ...
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... means of producing an almost infinite variety of symmetrical pat- terns , both more complex and more beautiful than hereto- fore . The " sixth gift " is a cube so divided as to extend still farther the child's power of combining and ...
... means of producing an almost infinite variety of symmetrical pat- terns , both more complex and more beautiful than hereto- fore . The " sixth gift " is a cube so divided as to extend still farther the child's power of combining and ...
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Página 138 - Now, what I want is, Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts : nothing else will ever be of any service to them. This is the principle on which I bring up my own children, and this is the principle on which I bring up these children. Stick to Facts, sir...
Página 227 - My meaning simply is, that whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do well; that whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself to completely; that in great aims and in small, I have always been thoroughly in earnest.
Página 142 - I am very fond of flowers," returned the girl. "And is that why you would put tables and chairs upon them, and have people walking over them with heavy boots?" "It wouldn't hurt them, sir. They wouldn't crush and wither if you please, sir. They would be the pictures of what was very pretty and pleasant, and I would fancy — " "Ay, ay, ay! But you mustn't fancy," cried the gentleman, quite elated by coming so happily to his point.
Página 140 - Bitzer," said Thomas Gradgrind. " Your definition of a horse." "Quadruped. Graminivorous. Forty teeth, namely twentyfour grinders, four eye-teeth, and twelve incisive. Sheds coat in the spring; in marshy countries, sheds hoofs, too. Hoofs hard, but requiring to be shod with iron. Age known by marks in mouth.
Página 96 - Blimber's establishment was a great hothouse, in which there was a forcing apparatus incessantly at work.
Página 97 - Blimber's assistant, he was a kind of human barrel-organ, with a little list of tunes at which he was .continually working, over and over again, without any variation.
Página 138 - He and some one hundred and forty other schoolmasters had been lately turned at the same time, in the same factory, on the same principles, like so many pianoforte legs. He had been put through an immense variety of paces, and had answered volumes of head-breaking questions. Orthography, etymology, syntax, and prosody, biography, astronomy, geography, and general cosmography, the sciences of compound proportion, algebra, land-surveying and levelling, vocal music, and drawing from models, were all...
Página 319 - Man's," said the Spirit, looking down upon them. " And they cling to me, appealing from their fathers. This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want. Beware of them both, and all of their degree, but most of all beware this boy, for on his brow I see that written which is Doom, unless the writing be erased.
Página 141 - Very well," said this gentleman, briskly smiling, and folding his arms. That's a horse. Now, let me ask you girls and boys, Would you paper a room with representations of horses ?" After a pause, one half of the children cried in chorus,