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- books.google.comPlato, Julius A. Sigler, Anne Marshall Huston - 1996 - 406 pages
You see at once what a good start we have given him by making his eye his
compass. No doubt he will ... Remember that this is the essential point in my
method— Do not teach the child many things, but never let him form inaccurate or
confused ideas. ... It is not your business to teach him the various sciences, but to
give him a taste for them and methods of learning them when this taste is more
mature. - books.google.comJean Jacques Rousseau - 2007 - 420 pages
Remember that this is the essential point in my method—Do not teach the child
many things, but never to let him form ... Time was long during early childhood;
we only tried to pass our time for fear of using it ill; now it is the other way; we
have not time enough for all that would be of use ... It is not your business to
teach him the various sciences, but to give him a taste for them and methods of
learning them ... - books.google.com1883
Usually the fault is in home training, or the lack of it ; but whether the beginnings
are at home or in the school, the bitter ... What a teacher is affects his pupils more
than what he says or does : so what he reads affects them more than what he
tells them ... technically so-called, and give large space to biography and history,
history that is really history of the people and not ... The field thus opened is so
wide that cultivated taste, enlightened judgment and conscience, must be
exercised in ... - books.google.comHannah More - 1827
But religion is the only thing in winch we | seem to look for the end, without
making use of the means ; and yet it would not be more i surprising if we were to
expect that our children should become artists and scholars without being bred to
arts ... The sublimest , pleasures can afford little gratification where j a taste for
them has not been previously j formed. ... or a concert, could not guess at the
nature of tbo pleasures they afford ; nor would his being introduced to them give
him much ... - books.google.com
You would not only teach them the principles of science, but the principles of the
work which they had in hand ? ... And you think the means of giving that do not
exist to a sufficient extent in Birmingham ? ... night to the young, the adults, and
the masters, and that he should be paid to devote himself to the difficult problems
of our trade, so that we should be ... Then he would not be engaged in teaching
children or adults of the labour- ing class ? ... they would have a taste and desire
for it. - books.google.comHannah More - 2005 - 568 pages
sublimest pleasures can afford little gratification where a taste for them has not
been previously formed. ... or a concert, could not guess at the nature of the
pleasures they afford ; nor would his being introduced to them give him much
clearer ... Shall we be surprised if those do not fulfil the offices of religion who are
not trained to an acquaintance with them ? ... Since nothing but experience
seems to teach him, that if he be allowed to anticipate his future possessions, and
trample all the ... - books.google.com1868 - 481 pages
You would not only teach them the principles of science, but theyprinciples of the
work which they had in hand ? ... And you think the means of giving that do not
exist to a sufiicient extent in Birmingham ? ... the adults, and the masters, and that
he should be paid to devote himself to the diflicult problems of our trade, so that
we should be on a ... Then he would not be engaged in teaching children or
adults of the labourmg class ? ... Yes, certainly ; they would have a taste and
desire for it. - books.google.com1835
It is, I am aware, impossible, on earth, to equal the family in heaven; but it is not
impossible to imitate them. ... We teach, and try, in our families, to worship God
and the Lamb as they do ; to celebrate the atonement as they do ; to look ...
Would not the habitual recollection of being mutual heirs of eternal life, make
husbands and wives forbearing and gentle? Could they speak in harshness or
bitterness — if they addressed each other as children of God, and as members of
his family? - books.google.com1821
We arrived at Hartford and the master went to the hotel at noon. ... His wife and
children were sailing aboard the ship. ... But they disliked him to teach them very
kindly. ... I think his English friend told him that he should not visit England, but he
might visit the americaiis. ... The Americans contributed the money to him, when
he would give them to the heathens. ... Of these debates we are compelled to say
, that they are much too noisy an Bacchanalian for our taste, and that the attempt
to ... - books.google.comRobert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1838
Again : "The historian scarce gives leisure to the moralist to say so much, but that
he, (loaden with ... and the historian are they which would win the goal, the one
by precept, the other by example; but both, not having both, do both halt. ...
thinking them the army of the Greeks, with their chieftains Agamemnon and Mene
- laus; and tell me if you have not a more ... unto you with a tale, which holdeth
children from play, and old men from the chimney-corner;* and pretending • We
have here, ...