Theory and Practice of Teaching, Or, The Motives and Methods of Good School-seepingHall & Dickson, 1847 - 349 pages |
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Page 308 - Delightful task.—Love for scholars,—for teaching,—to be felt. irksome ; and you can most cordially respond to the poet, in that beautiful sentiment too seldom fully realized:— " Delightful task! to rear the tender thought. And teach the young idea how to shoot, To pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind, To breathe the enlivening spirit, and to fix The
Page 51 - twelfths of all the children in the reading classes in our schools, do not understand the meaning of the words they read; that they do not master the sense of their reading lessons; and that the ideas and feelings intended by the author to be conveyed to and excited in the reader's
Page 283 - Good sense will stagnate. Thoughts shut up want air, And spoil like bales unopened to the sun. Had thought been all, sweet speech had been denied. ******* Thought, too, delivered, is the more possessed : Teaching, we learn; and giving, we retain The births of intellect; when dumb, forgot. Speech ventilates our intellectual fire; Speech burnishes our mental magazine, Brightens for ornament, and whets for
Page 327 - them com, when thou hast so provided for it. Thou waterest the ridges thereof abundantly: thou settlest the furrows thereof: thou makest it soft with
Page 13 - unskilful hands attempt To play the harp whose tones, whose living tones Are left forever in the strings. Better far • That heaven's lightnings blast his very soul, And sink it back to Chaos' lowest depths, Than knowingly, by word or deed, he send A blight upon the trusting mind of youth.
Page 85 - Converse with the scholar a little as to the principles involved in the question; refer him to principles which he has before learned, or has now lost sight of; perhaps call his attention to some rule or explanation before given to the class ; go just so far as to enlighten him a little, and put
Page 198 - and in the present condition of things, able to accomplish so glorious a work. Neither of these propositions am I at present prepared to admit. If there are extraordinary individuals—and we know there are such—so singularly gifted with talent and resources, and with the divine quality of love, that they can win
Page 84 - way to get rid of it. Both these courses are, in general, wrong. The inquirer should never be frowned upon ; this may discourage him. He should not be relieved from labor, as this will diminish his selfreliance without enlightening him ; for whatever is done for a scholar without his having studied closely The true
Page 115 - requires more and less requires less .'" —and in the midst of this inexplicable combination of more and less, I shrunk away to my seat blindly to follow the rule because it said so. Such teaching as this is enough to stultify the most inquiring mind ; and it is to secure the blessing of relief from such
Page 327 - The Bible speaks.—Words fitly spoken.—The effect. Bible from the desk, asked us to remain quiet a moment while he would read a few words that he hoped we should never forget. The passage was the following, from the 65th Psalm :— By terrible things in righteousness wilt thou answer