Industrial Instruction: A Pedagogic and Social Necessity ; Together with a Critique Upon Objections Advanced

Cover
D.C. Heath & Company, 1887 - 160 Seiten

Im Buch

Ausgewählte Seiten

Andere Ausgaben - Alle anzeigen

Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen

Beliebte Passagen

Seite 168 - Many examples may be put of the force of custom, both upon mind and body : therefore, since custom is the principal magistrate of man's life, let men by all means endeavour to obtain good customs. Certainly, custom is most perfect when it beginneth in young years : this we call education, which is, in effect, but an early custom.
Seite 170 - Perhaps the most influential book ever written on the subject of Education.
Seite 176 - Contains, in the form most likely to be of direct practical utility to teachers, as well as to students and readers of history, the opinions and modes of instruction, actual or ideal, of eminent and representative specialists in leading American and English universities.
Seite 161 - It is our purpose to add from time to time such books as have contributed or may contribute so much toward the solution of educational problems as to make them indispensable to every true teacher's library. The following good words, and also the opinions quoted under the several volumes, are an earnest of the appreciation in which the enterprise is held: — Dr. Wm. T. Harris, Concord, Mass. : I do not think that you have ever printed a book on education that is not worthy to go on any teacher's...
Seite 175 - How to Teach Reading and What to Read in the Schools. By G. STANLEY HALL, .Professor of Psychology and Pedagogy, Johns Hopkins University.
Seite 79 - But o'er-anxious thought you'll find of no avail, For there precisely where ideas fail, A word comes opportunely into play. Most admirable weapons words are found ; On words a system we securely ground ; In words we can conveniently believe, Nor of a single jot can we a word bereave.
Seite 166 - THE first of these lectures introduced and interested the Boston public in Kindergarten education. The seven others are those which, for nine or ten successive years, Miss Peabody addressed to the training classes for Kindergartners, in Boston and other cities. They unfold the idea which, though...

Bibliografische Informationen