Theory and Practice of Teaching, Or, The Motives and Methods of Good School-keepingHall & Dickson, 1847 - 349 pages |
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... extent , has been retained , as I have written with an aim at usefulness rather than rhetorical effect . - If the term theory in the title suggests to any mind the bad sense sometimes conveyed 4 PREFACE . by that word , I would simply.
... extent , has been retained , as I have written with an aim at usefulness rather than rhetorical effect . - If the term theory in the title suggests to any mind the bad sense sometimes conveyed 4 PREFACE . by that word , I would simply.
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... sometimes submitted to imminent danger , but are still unaccountably preserved by the hand of Providence . The teacher should go to his duty full of his work . He should be impressed with its overwhelming im- portance . He should feel ...
... sometimes submitted to imminent danger , but are still unaccountably preserved by the hand of Providence . The teacher should go to his duty full of his work . He should be impressed with its overwhelming im- portance . He should feel ...
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... Sometimes a violent stroke would bring down upon my own head a shower of the filthy caterpillars ; again , the long - cherished garden- 16 RESPONSIBILITY OF THE TEACHER . Disagreeable toil - Grafting RESPONSIBILITY OF THE TEACHER . 15.
... Sometimes a violent stroke would bring down upon my own head a shower of the filthy caterpillars ; again , the long - cherished garden- 16 RESPONSIBILITY OF THE TEACHER . Disagreeable toil - Grafting RESPONSIBILITY OF THE TEACHER . 15.
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... sometimes from a neglect of exercise ; sometimes from too long confine Laws of physical health . - Nervous excitement . Es-
... sometimes from a neglect of exercise ; sometimes from too long confine Laws of physical health . - Nervous excitement . Es-
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... sometimes from breathing bad air ; sometimes from being kept too warm or too cold . Now the teacher should be an in- telligent physiologist ; and from a knowledge of what the human system can bear and what it cannot , he is bound to be ...
... sometimes from breathing bad air ; sometimes from being kept too warm or too cold . Now the teacher should be an in- telligent physiologist ; and from a knowledge of what the human system can bear and what it cannot , he is bound to be ...
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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.