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The easiest part of the work of a school is the supervision of the more mechanical
lessons , such as reading and writing , or the correction of sums and of home
exercises in the middle classes of a school , where scholars may be presumed to
...
The easiest part of the work of a school is the supervision of the more mechanical
lessons , such as reading and writing , or the correction of sums and of home
exercises in the middle classes of a school , where scholars may be presumed to
...
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... may perhaps be allowed for scholars in the same class , who have made
different degrees of progress in Arith - · metic , and it will not always be possible
or desirable that all the scholars in a class should be working exactly the same
sums .
... may perhaps be allowed for scholars in the same class , who have made
different degrees of progress in Arith - · metic , and it will not always be possible
or desirable that all the scholars in a class should be working exactly the same
sums .
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Already the sums mentioned on p . 48 , which were recommended by the
Schools ' Inquiry Commission in 1867 , have often proved to be insufficient for the
satisfactory conduct even of schools provided with good buildings for which no
interest ...
Already the sums mentioned on p . 48 , which were recommended by the
Schools ' Inquiry Commission in 1867 , have often proved to be insufficient for the
satisfactory conduct even of schools provided with good buildings for which no
interest ...
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The thoughts and experiences which make up the sum of our mental life in
different years vary as much as the particles that compose the body . Some
disappear and others take their place . But the life is the same so long as there is
continuity ...
The thoughts and experiences which make up the sum of our mental life in
different years vary as much as the particles that compose the body . Some
disappear and others take their place . But the life is the same so long as there is
continuity ...
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I would let seven of them be honest , straightforward sums in the form which the
scholar would naturally expect ; but I would add three which required an
explanation of principles , and which , without being puzzles or conundrums ,
were ...
I would let seven of them be honest , straightforward sums in the form which the
scholar would naturally expect ; but I would add three which required an
explanation of principles , and which , without being puzzles or conundrums ,
were ...
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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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