Readings in the History of Education: A Collection of Sources and Readings to Illustrate the Development of Educational Practice, Theory, and Organization, Part 1 |
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... taught him the use of the lyre , they in- troduce him to the poems of other excellent poets , who are the lyric poets ; and these they set to music , and make their harmonies and rhythms quite familiar to the children's souls , in order ...
... taught him the use of the lyre , they in- troduce him to the poems of other excellent poets , who are the lyric poets ; and these they set to music , and make their harmonies and rhythms quite familiar to the children's souls , in order ...
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... taught . The State only interfered to make schooling as cheap and as easy to obtain as possible . 6. Athenian Education summarized ( Thucydides , book II , ¶ 40 ) An excellent summary of the higher aims and accomplishments of Athenian ...
... taught . The State only interfered to make schooling as cheap and as easy to obtain as possible . 6. Athenian Education summarized ( Thucydides , book II , ¶ 40 ) An excellent summary of the higher aims and accomplishments of Athenian ...
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... taught . As for the rest , show himself such an example , that they who can imitate and express it , may be able to speak in a more beautiful and elegant manner than others . In whatever regard any thing of what I have mentioned is ...
... taught . As for the rest , show himself such an example , that they who can imitate and express it , may be able to speak in a more beautiful and elegant manner than others . In whatever regard any thing of what I have mentioned is ...
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... taught the Greeks writing , but it was the Greeks who wrote . In every department the principle holds good . They stamped their genius upon each imported product , which was to them but the raw material of their art . . . . Such ...
... taught the Greeks writing , but it was the Greeks who wrote . In every department the principle holds good . They stamped their genius upon each imported product , which was to them but the raw material of their art . . . . Such ...
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... taught to harangue in a most pompous diction , on the rewards due to tyrannicides , on the election to be made by deflowered virgins , on the licentiousness of married women , on the ceremonies to be observed in time of pestilence ...
... taught to harangue in a most pompous diction , on the rewards due to tyrannicides , on the election to be made by deflowered virgins , on the licentiousness of married women , on the ceremonies to be observed in time of pestilence ...
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Page 331 - The end, then, of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him as we may the nearest by possessing our souls of true virtue, which being united to the heavenly grace of faith makes up the highest perfection.
Page 92 - Awake, O north wind; and come, thou south; Blow upon my garden, That the spices thereof may flow out. Let my beloved come into his garden, And eat his pleasant fruits.
Page 44 - Then certain philosophers of the Epicureans, and of the Stoics, encountered him. And some said, "What will this babbler say?" other some, "He seemeth to be a setter forth of strange gods ; " because he preached unto them Jesus, and the resurrection.
Page 532 - It shall not be required as a condition of any child being admitted into or continuing in the school, that he shall attend or abstain from attending any Sunday school, or any place of religious worship, or that he shall attend any religious observance or any instruction in religious subjects in the school or elsewhere...
Page 290 - After God had carried us safe to New England, and we had builded our houses, provided necessaries for our livelihood, reared convenient places for God's worship, and settled the civil government, one of the next things we longed for and looked after was to advance learning and perpetuate it to posterity; dreading to leave an illiterate ministry to the churches, when our present ministers shall lie in the dust.
Page 425 - It shall be the duty of the General Assembly, as soon as circumstances will permit, to provide, by law, for a general system of education, ascending in a regular gradation from township schools to a State University, wherein tuition shall be gratis, and equally open to all.
Page 594 - Our good and faithful subjects, but render illustrious the best traditions of your forefathers. "The way here set forth is indeed the teaching bequeathed by Our Imperial Ancestors, to be observed alike by Their Descendants and Subjects, infallible for all ages and true in all places. It is Our wish to lay it to heart in all reverence, in common with you, Our subjects, that we may all thus attain to the same virtue.
Page 43 - ROMANS p)AUL, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated unto the gospel of God, (which he had promised afore by his prophets in the holy scriptures,) concerning his Son Jesus Christ our Lord, which was made of the seed of David according to the flesh, and declared to be the Son of .God with power, according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead...
Page 263 - In the name of God amen. The 1 st day of September in the 36th year of the reign of our sovereign lord Henry VIII by the grace of God King of England, France and Ireland, defender of the faith and of the church of England and also of Ireland, in earth the supreme head, and in the year of our Lord God 1544.
Page 402 - ... of his vicinage, without whose unanimous consent he cannot be found guilty ; nor can he be compelled to give evidence against himself; that no man be deprived of his liberty except by the law of the land, or the judgment of his peers.