Lectures on Teaching Delivered in the University of Cambridge During the Lent Term, 1880 |
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... reasons for thinking that the terms ' First , Second and Third Grade , ' suggested by the Schools Inquiry Commissioners , will not find per- manent acceptance in this country . So I have been fain to fall back upon the words Primary ...
... reasons for thinking that the terms ' First , Second and Third Grade , ' suggested by the Schools Inquiry Commissioners , will not find per- manent acceptance in this country . So I have been fain to fall back upon the words Primary ...
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... reasons for teaching them ; and so by bringing together a few of the plainer results of experience to place readers in a position in which it will be a little easier for them to devise and work out methods for themselves . No one can be ...
... reasons for teaching them ; and so by bringing together a few of the plainer results of experience to place readers in a position in which it will be a little easier for them to devise and work out methods for themselves . No one can be ...
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... Reasons for this . Greek and Latin Purposes once served by the learning of Latin Some of these no longer useful ' Classical ' Schools • The true place of Latin in the schools of the future In High Schools , and in Secondary Schools ...
... Reasons for this . Greek and Latin Purposes once served by the learning of Latin Some of these no longer useful ' Classical ' Schools • The true place of Latin in the schools of the future In High Schools , and in Secondary Schools ...
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... Reasons and explanations not discoverable , but only facts Large truths instead of small ones What are ' laws ' of Nature ? Application of the methods of inductive investigation to the business of life The relation of science to skilled ...
... Reasons and explanations not discoverable , but only facts Large truths instead of small ones What are ' laws ' of Nature ? Application of the methods of inductive investigation to the business of life The relation of science to skilled ...
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... reason why all training and study of method are super- fluous . But we do not reason thus in regard to any other profession , even to those in which original power tells most , and in which the mechanic is most easily distinguishable ...
... reason why all training and study of method are super- fluous . But we do not reason thus in regard to any other profession , even to those in which original power tells most , and in which the mechanic is most easily distinguishable ...
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Page 434 - But if a man live many years, and rejoice in them all; yet let him remember the days of darkness; for they shall be many.
Page 277 - Before all temples the upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for thou know'st; thou from the first Wast present, and, with mighty wings outspread, Dove-like, sat'st brooding on the vast abyss, And mad'st it pregnant: what in me is dark Illumine; what is low, raise and support; That to the height of this great argument I may assert eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men.
Page 268 - But now farewell. I am going a long way With these thou seest - — if indeed I go — For all my mind is clouded with a doubt — To the island- valley of Avilion; Where falls not hail, or rain, or any snow, Nor ever wind blows loudly; but it lies Deep-meadow'd, happy, fair with orchard lawns And bowery hollows crown'd with summer sea, Where I will heal me of my grievous wound.
Page 3 - ... studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience. Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them, for they teach not their own use; but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation.
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