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... rises up to say , " We have been making experiments all our lives ; we have learned much , but we have learned it at the expense of our pupils ; and The University and the Teacher . 3 much of the 2 The Teacher and his Assistants .
... rises up to say , " We have been making experiments all our lives ; we have learned much , but we have learned it at the expense of our pupils ; and The University and the Teacher . 3 much of the 2 The Teacher and his Assistants .
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... pupils , we shall succeed very well . But the truth is that no one can teach the whole , or even the half of what he knows . There is a large percentage of waste and loss in the very act of transmission , and you can never convey into ...
... pupils , we shall succeed very well . But the truth is that no one can teach the whole , or even the half of what he knows . There is a large percentage of waste and loss in the very act of transmission , and you can never convey into ...
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... pupils , dread most in yourself - stagnation , acqui- escence in routine , torpor of mind , indifference to know- ledge . When your own soul loses the receptive faculty , ceases to give a joyous welcome to new truth , be sure you have ...
... pupils , dread most in yourself - stagnation , acqui- escence in routine , torpor of mind , indifference to know- ledge . When your own soul loses the receptive faculty , ceases to give a joyous welcome to new truth , be sure you have ...
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... pupils , and will be re- produced in their own conduct towards their juniors or inferiors . Dr Channing has well said that " a boy com- pelled for six hours a day to see the countenance and hear the voice of a fretful , unkind , hard or ...
... pupils , and will be re- produced in their own conduct towards their juniors or inferiors . Dr Channing has well said that " a boy com- pelled for six hours a day to see the countenance and hear the voice of a fretful , unkind , hard or ...
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... pupils is not insignificant . A noisy school is one in which a great opportunity of civilizing and softening the manners is habitually lost . And a school whose work is always done on a low tone , is one in which not only is the teacher ...
... pupils is not insignificant . A noisy school is one in which a great opportunity of civilizing and softening the manners is habitually lost . And a school whose work is always done on a low tone , is one in which not only is the teacher ...
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