Theory and Practice of Teaching, Or, The Motives and Methods of Good School-seepingHall & 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 by that word , I would simply say , that.
... 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 by that word , I would simply say , that.
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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- Disagreeable toil . - Grafting of a Bartlet Pear . 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- Disagreeable toil . - Grafting of a Bartlet Pear . 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- RESPONSIBILITY OF THE TEACHER . 19.
... sometimes from a neglect of exercise ; sometimes from too long confine Laws of physical health . - Nervous excitement . Es- RESPONSIBILITY OF THE TEACHER . 19.
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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 attainments attention become better branches called child common schools conscience consider corporal punishment course cultivation DAVIES desire district duty ear of corn effectual Elementary Arithmetic elementary sounds English language evil excite exer exercise experience feel finer feelings friends give grammar habits heart hour human important improvement infliction inquire instruction interest knowledge labor language lessons look means ment mental Mental Arithmetic metic mind moral motives natural philosophy nature neglected never Normal Chart Normal School object parents perhaps practical prepared present principle prize profession punishment pupils question recess recitation reward rience scholars scholium schoolroom sometimes soon soul spirit success SYRACUSE teaching thing tion TRIGONOMETRY truth uncon vidual words young teacher
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Page 327 - 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 125 - Let nothing be done through strife or vain-glory, but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.
Page 327 - O God of our salvation ; Who art the confidence of all the ends of the earth, and of them that are afar off upon the sea...
Page 327 - Thou crownest the year with thy goodness; and thy paths drop fatness. They drop upon the pastures of the wilderness : and the little hills rejoice on every side. The pastures are clothed with flocks; the valleys also are covered over with corn; they shout for joy, they also sing.
Page 124 - ... 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 308 - 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 the enlivening spirit, and to fix The generous purpose in the glowing breast.
Page 156 - 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 30 - The torch he quenches ; or to music wind Again the lyre-string from his touch that flew — But for the soul ! — oh ! tremble, and beware To lay rude hands upon God's mysteries there...
Page 264 - ... with impunity. If taken, fat in a solid form is less injurious than liquid fat. " 5. Fruit may be eaten with the recollection of the proverb of fruit-producing countries : ' It is gold in the morning, silver at noon, and lead at night.
Page 51 - The result is that more than eleven-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 the reading lessons, and that the ideas and feelings intended by the author to be conveyed to, and excited in, the reader's mind, still rest in the author's intention, never having yet reached the place of their destination.