Social Development and Education

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Houghton Mifflin Company, 1909 - 561 Seiten
 

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Seite 260 - Art; and he that has found a way, how to keep up a Child's Spirit, easy, active and free; and yet, at the same time, to restrain him from many things he has a Mind to, and to draw him to things that are uneasy to him; he, I say, that knows how to reconcile these seeming Contradictions, has, in my Opinion, got the true Secret of Education.
Seite 375 - We would not have our guardians grow up amid images of moral deformity, as in some noxious pasture, and there browse and feed upon many a baneful herb and flower day by day, little by little, until they silently gather a festering mass of corruption in their own soul.
Seite 359 - ... carriage, make the child sensible that he loves him, and designs nothing but his good, the only way to beget love in the child, which will make him hearken to his lessons, and relish what he teaches him. Nothing but obstinacy should meet with any imperiousness, or rough usage. All other faults should be corrected with a gentle hand ; and kind, engaging words will work better and more effectually upon a willing mind, and even prevent a good deal of that perverseness which rough and imperious usage...
Seite 280 - Those therefore that intend ever to govern their Children, should begin it whilst they are very little; and look, that they perfectly comply with the Will of their Parents. Would you have your Son obedient to you when past a Child? Be sure then to establish the Authority of a Father, as soon as he is capable of Submission, and can 10 understand in whose Power he is.
Seite 359 - Tis true, obstinacy and wilful neglects must be mastered, even though it cost blows to do it ; but I am apt to think perverseness in the pupils is often the effect of frowardness in the tutor...
Seite 375 - Let our artists rather be those who are gifted to discern the true nature of the beautiful and graceful; then will our youth dwell in a land of health, amid fair sights and sounds, and receive the good in everything ; and beauty, the effluence of fair works, shall flow into the eye and ear, like a health-giving breeze from a purer region, and insensibly draw the soul from earliest...
Seite 262 - Upon the ethical side, the tragic weakness of the present school is that it endeavors to prepare future members of the social order in a medium in which the conditions of the social spirit are eminently wanting.
Seite 262 - A society is a number of people held together because they are working along common lines, in a common spirit, and with reference to common aims.
Seite 260 - For extravagant young fellows, that have liveliness and spirit, come sometimes to be set right, and so make able and great men: but dejected minds, timorous and tame, and low spirits, are hardly ever to be raised, and very seldom attain to any thing.
Seite 333 - ... Hand be kept over Children from the Beginning, they will in that Age be tractable, and quietly submit to it, as never having known any other: And if, as they grow up to the Use of Reason, the Rigour of Government be, as they deserve it, gently relaxed, the Father's Brow more...

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