Theory and Practice of Teaching, Or, The Motives and Methods of Good School-keepingHall & Dickson, 1847 - 349 pages |
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... common retail shop ; every young farmer who obtains in the winter a short vacation from the toils of summer , -in short , every young person who is conscious of his imbecility in other business , esteems himself fully competent to train ...
... common retail shop ; every young farmer who obtains in the winter a short vacation from the toils of summer , -in short , every young person who is conscious of his imbecility in other business , esteems himself fully competent to train ...
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... , and so much dependent upon its life - giving truths for what we may hope to be , -how important is it that all our youth should be nurtured under its influences ! Avoid sectarianism . - Common ground . - Exemplified .
... , and so much dependent upon its life - giving truths for what we may hope to be , -how important is it that all our youth should be nurtured under its influences ! Avoid sectarianism . - Common ground . - Exemplified .
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... common ground which he can oc- cupy , and to which no reasonable man can object . He can teach a reverence for the Supreme Being , a reverence for his Holy Word , for the influences of his Spirit , for the character and teachings of the ...
... common ground which he can oc- cupy , and to which no reasonable man can object . He can teach a reverence for the Supreme Being , a reverence for his Holy Word , for the influences of his Spirit , for the character and teachings of the ...
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... common salutations with one of the teachers . boys are these that pay you such attention as they What pass ? " inquired the other . " They are my scholars , " answered his friend . " Your scholars ! Why how do you teach them to be so ...
... common salutations with one of the teachers . boys are these that pay you such attention as they What pass ? " inquired the other . " They are my scholars , " answered his friend . " Your scholars ! Why how do you teach them to be so ...
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... common schools , and they will find it for their interest to pay for them . Under these circumstances , it will not be my design to give the very lowest qualifications for a teacher at present . I shall aim to describe those which a ...
... common schools , and they will find it for their interest to pay for them . Under these circumstances , it will not be my design to give the very lowest qualifications for a teacher at present . I shall aim to describe those which a ...
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Page 313 - Thou visitest the earth, and waterest it: thou greatly enrichest it with the river of God, which is full of water: thou preparest them corn, when thou hast so provided for it.
Page 313 - The pastures are clothed with flocks; the valleys also are covered over with corn; they shout for joy, they also sing.
Page 170 - Beside yon straggling fence that skirts the way With blossomed furze unprofitably gay, There in his noisy mansion, skilled to rule, The village master taught his little school. A man severe he was, and stern to view, I knew him well, and every truant knew : Well had the boding tremblers learned to trace The day's disasters in his morning face...
Page 144 - And he would not for a while. But afterward he said within himself; Though I fear not God, nor regard man ; Yet, because this widow troubleth me, I will avenge her ; lest by her continual coming she weary me.
Page 112 - ... which are these ; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in times past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
Page 113 - Let nothing be done through strife or vain -glory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.
Page 313 - By terrible things in righteousness wilt thou answer us, O God of our salvation; chapter 63:8 who art the confidence of all the ends of the earth, and of them that are afar off upon the sea...
Page 294 - Delightful task ! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot, . To pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind, To breathe th' enlivening spirit and to fix The generous purpose in the glowing breast.
Page 129 - Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul and with all thy mind, and thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.
Page 271 - Hast thou no friend to set thy mind abroach ; Good Sense will stagnate. Thoughts shut up, want air, And spoil, like bales unopened to the sun.