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... advance of their con- temporaries in laying down for their teachers a definite educational method - stiff and inelastic certainly , but yet a method . Little by little , little at a time , cultivation of the memory , thoroughness in a ...
... advance of their con- temporaries in laying down for their teachers a definite educational method - stiff and inelastic certainly , but yet a method . Little by little , little at a time , cultivation of the memory , thoroughness in a ...
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... advance which the thought of man had made in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries - generally denoted by the terms ' Revival of Letters ' and the ' Reformation of Religion , ' or more generally ' the Renaissance , ' - had already been ...
... advance which the thought of man had made in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries - generally denoted by the terms ' Revival of Letters ' and the ' Reformation of Religion , ' or more generally ' the Renaissance , ' - had already been ...
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... advance in parallel lines always . The human being tends to utter what he apprehends . If he does not apprehend the words he uses , he is a parrot ; if he apprehends without words , he is a dumb statue . Accordingly , under 100 heads ...
... advance in parallel lines always . The human being tends to utter what he apprehends . If he does not apprehend the words he uses , he is a parrot ; if he apprehends without words , he is a dumb statue . Accordingly , under 100 heads ...
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... advance their subject as well as to afford instruction in it to all comers . The combination of the scientific with the teaching function constitutes , indeed , the ideal of a University system . There was , in the beginning of the ...
... advance their subject as well as to afford instruction in it to all comers . The combination of the scientific with the teaching function constitutes , indeed , the ideal of a University system . There was , in the beginning of the ...
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... advance infallibly through their own successive steps . Just as Nature chooses spring as the time of prepara- tion for future products , so the right time is boyhood— the spring of life . The right time of the day is the morning hours ...
... advance infallibly through their own successive steps . Just as Nature chooses spring as the time of prepara- tion for future products , so the right time is boyhood— the spring of life . The right time of the day is the morning hours ...
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