Progressive Education: Observations on the first four years of childhoodLongman, Orme, Brown, Green & Longmans, 1839 - Education |
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... causes are constantly at work ; but there are also many regular and kindly influ- ences , the employment of which is in our own power . It is precisely because incidental edu- cation is constantly going on that we seek to counteract its ...
... causes are constantly at work ; but there are also many regular and kindly influ- ences , the employment of which is in our own power . It is precisely because incidental edu- cation is constantly going on that we seek to counteract its ...
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... cause which might affect any age ) , prove any thing against the possibility of an eternal progress in the faculties of the soul . This progress requires , indeed , the concurrence of the will : those who do not penetrate beyond the ...
... cause which might affect any age ) , prove any thing against the possibility of an eternal progress in the faculties of the soul . This progress requires , indeed , the concurrence of the will : those who do not penetrate beyond the ...
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... causes by which the have been produced . Here it may be observed that religion , which should be the centre and point of union of all the various branches of education , may be taken as our guide in every period , and will indicate to ...
... causes by which the have been produced . Here it may be observed that religion , which should be the centre and point of union of all the various branches of education , may be taken as our guide in every period , and will indicate to ...
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... character are rather inclined to reason too much every object presents to them a thousand different sides , and every cause a thousand different effects . What their minds want , is that ener- C 4 PRELIMINARY CHAPTER . 23.
... character are rather inclined to reason too much every object presents to them a thousand different sides , and every cause a thousand different effects . What their minds want , is that ener- C 4 PRELIMINARY CHAPTER . 23.
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... causing us to live , as it were , in another soul . Such are the tender affections , which , from their first faint appearance , as shown in the instinct - of sympathy , to their complete developement in the devotion PRELIMINARY CHAPTER .
... causing us to live , as it were , in another soul . Such are the tender affections , which , from their first faint appearance , as shown in the instinct - of sympathy , to their complete developement in the devotion PRELIMINARY CHAPTER .
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