Lectures on Teaching Delivered in the University of Cambridge During the Lent Term, 1880 |
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... wrong uses of mechanical drill Corporate life of a School Child - nature to be studied before insisting on rules School - time to be filled with work The law of Habit Its bearing on School life and work Recreation and gymnastics Sunday ...
... wrong uses of mechanical drill Corporate life of a School Child - nature to be studied before insisting on rules School - time to be filled with work The law of Habit Its bearing on School life and work Recreation and gymnastics Sunday ...
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... wrong ways of teaching it Mnemonic methods of learning Chronology Biography Lessons on great writers Historical readings The poetry of History Picturesque teaching and its relation to detail Lessons on the Government and Constitution ...
... wrong ways of teaching it Mnemonic methods of learning Chronology Biography Lessons on great writers Historical readings The poetry of History Picturesque teaching and its relation to detail Lessons on the Government and Constitution ...
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... wrong , you will destroy the chance of new invention and discovery , and will do much to render teaching more sterotyped and lifeless than ever . And even if it be ad- mitted that a perfect set of rules for practice is desirable and ...
... wrong , you will destroy the chance of new invention and discovery , and will do much to render teaching more sterotyped and lifeless than ever . And even if it be ad- mitted that a perfect set of rules for practice is desirable and ...
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... wrong , in al- lotting the best of the time in the case of older pupils , in about equal proportions to these three departments of in- tellectual effort . We shall have to consider more fully hereafter the reasons which justify the ...
... wrong , in al- lotting the best of the time in the case of older pupils , in about equal proportions to these three departments of in- tellectual effort . We shall have to consider more fully hereafter the reasons which justify the ...
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... wrong in principle . Any disadvantages which belong to the children of any one such class become intensified by the attempt to bring them up together . Experience has Bifurca- tion . Modern depart- ments . shewn us that 4-2.
... wrong in principle . Any disadvantages which belong to the children of any one such class become intensified by the attempt to bring them up together . Experience has Bifurca- tion . Modern depart- ments . shewn us that 4-2.
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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.
Page 276 - STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight is in privateness and retiring; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business...
Page 437 - The Pointed Prayer Book, being the Book of Common Prayer with the Psalter or Psalms of David, pointed as they are to be sung or said in Churches.