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... unless we are prepared to take some pains with ourselves and cultivate
patience and forbearance , we are singularly out of place in the profession of
schoolmaster . We want patience , because the best results of teaching come
very slowly ...
... unless we are prepared to take some pains with ourselves and cultivate
patience and forbearance , we are singularly out of place in the profession of
schoolmaster . We want patience , because the best results of teaching come
very slowly ...
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... scholars in the playground ; who at least do not frown at children ' s play , but
shew an interest in it , recognize it as a proper and necessary employment of time
, and indeed can play heartily themselves when the proper occasion comes .
... scholars in the playground ; who at least do not frown at children ' s play , but
shew an interest in it , recognize it as a proper and necessary employment of time
, and indeed can play heartily themselves when the proper occasion comes .
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Watch therefore for good pieces of description which come in your way in books
or newspapers , or for effective stories which you hear ; and practice yourself
often in reproducing them . Observe the effect of telling such a story when you
give it ...
Watch therefore for good pieces of description which come in your way in books
or newspapers , or for effective stories which you hear ; and practice yourself
often in reproducing them . Observe the effect of telling such a story when you
give it ...
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But when it is at an end , and the rule is arrived at , then comes the relapse into
verbalism . Routine is always easier than intelligence . And some of the most
worthless of all routine is — not the traditional routine of the mediæval schools ,
which ...
But when it is at an end , and the rule is arrived at , then comes the relapse into
verbalism . Routine is always easier than intelligence . And some of the most
worthless of all routine is — not the traditional routine of the mediæval schools ,
which ...
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his own department was attributable to the worthless character of the preparation
obtained in the usher ' s class ; and the usher with equal frankness , told me that it
was of no use to take any pains with boys , who were to come under so foolish ...
his own department was attributable to the worthless character of the preparation
obtained in the usher ' s class ; and the usher with equal frankness , told me that it
was of no use to take any pains with boys , who were to come under so foolish ...
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| Title | Lectures on Teaching Delivered in the University of Cambridge During the Lent Term, 1880 |
| Author | Sir Joshua Girling Fitch |
| Publisher | The University Press, 1881 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 9 Apr 2007 |
| Length | 436 pages |
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