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

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

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Seite 174 - Perhaps the most influential book ever written on the subject of Education.
Seite 173 - VOLTAIRE IN this book will be found the ger.n of all that is useful in present systems of education, as well as most of the ever-recurring mistakes of well-meaning zealots.
Seite 167 - J'ai grand plaisir a me relire dans votre langue, d'autant que vous n'avez rien neglige pour 1'impression materielle. Combien vos Editions Americaines sont superieures aux notres ! (10 Avril, 1886.) Dr. WT Harris, Concord, Mass. : Professor Payne has done a real service to education in translating M. Compayre's History of Pedagogy. The work has great merits. Indeed, it is indispensable among histories of education, for the reason that it shows us the subject from the standpoint of a Frenchman of...
Seite 172 - 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 165 - 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 172 - Since custom is the principal magistrate of man's life, let men, by all means, endeavor to obtain good customs. Certainly, custom is most perfect when it beginneth in young years; this we call education, which is in effect but early custom.
Seite 83 - 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.

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