Theory and Practice of Teaching, Or, The Motives and Methods of Good School-keepingHall & Dickson, 1847 - 349 pages |
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... language of the poet , who described the school - boy of his darker day , - " with his satchel , And shining morning face , creeping , like snail , Unwillingly to school . " The teacher , who is responsible for such a result , should ...
... language of the poet , who described the school - boy of his darker day , - " with his satchel , And shining morning face , creeping , like snail , Unwillingly to school . " The teacher , who is responsible for such a result , should ...
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... language and in his manners . Cour- tesy of language may imply a freedom from all coarse- There is a kind of communication , used among boatmen and hangers - on at bar - rooms , which should find no place in the teacher's vocabulary ...
... language and in his manners . Cour- tesy of language may imply a freedom from all coarse- There is a kind of communication , used among boatmen and hangers - on at bar - rooms , which should find no place in the teacher's vocabulary ...
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... language of the teacher , I might urge also that it should be both pure and accurate . Pure as distinguished from all those cant phrases and provincialisms which amuse the vulgar in certain lo- calities ; and accurate as to the terms ...
... language of the teacher , I might urge also that it should be both pure and accurate . Pure as distinguished from all those cant phrases and provincialisms which amuse the vulgar in certain lo- calities ; and accurate as to the terms ...
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... language about forty elementary sounds ; yet we have but twenty - six characters to represent them . alphabet is therefore imperfect . This imperfection is augmented by the fact that several of the letters are employed each to represent ...
... language about forty elementary sounds ; yet we have but twenty - six characters to represent them . alphabet is therefore imperfect . This imperfection is augmented by the fact that several of the letters are employed each to represent ...
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... languages , as this would afford them great facilities in comprehending and defining many of our own words . As this cannot be expected for the present , a substitute may be sought in some analysis of our derivative words . Several ...
... languages , as this would afford them great facilities in comprehending and defining many of our own words . As this cannot be expected for the present , a substitute may be sought in some analysis of our derivative words . Several ...
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A. S. BARNES acquire answer appeal to fear Arithmetic article Grammar attainments attention AUBURN STATE PRISON become better branches called carefully caterpillars child choke pears common schools conscience course cultivation desire district duty early elementary sounds emol English language evil example excite exer exercise feel finer feelings friends Geography give grammar habits heart hour human important improvement infliction inquire instruction interest knowledge labor language laws learned lesson look means ment mental Mental Arithmetic metic mind moral motives natural philosophy nature never Normal Chart object parents perhaps person practice preparation present principle prize profession punishment pupils question recitation RESPONSIBILITY reward rience scholars schoolroom sometimes soon soul spirit success SYRACUSE tansy taught teaching thing tion TRIGONOMETRY true truth vidual words young teacher youth
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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.