Educational Foundations: A Text Book for the Professional Teacher, Том 10

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A.S. Barnes, 1899
 

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Сторінка 268 - I love Rome, but London better ; I favour Italy, but England more : I honour the Latin, but I worship the English.
Сторінка 457 - I much regret that I was not acquainted with the beauty of his system till somewhat advanced in my plan ; if I had known it, it would have saved me much trouble, and some retrograde movements.
Сторінка 486 - Thirdly, geography is now taught from books and flat atlases, chiefly as a memory study, and much time is given to committing to memory masses of facts which cannot be retained, and which are of little value if retained. By grouping physical geography with natural history, and political geography with history, and by providing proper apparatus for teaching geography, time can be saved, and yet a place made for much new and interesting geographical instruction.
Сторінка 257 - ... (custom made him critical to proportion it) in his desk in the school; but woe be to the scholar that slept the while. Awaking, he heard them accurately; and Atropos might be persuaded to pity, as soon as he to pardon, where he found just fault. The prayers of cockering mothers prevailed with him as much as the requests of indulgent fathers, rather increasing than mitigating his severity on their offending child.
Сторінка 235 - East, which followed upon the discovery of the route to India around the Cape of Good Hope by Vasco da Gama in 1498, must be mentioned as still another cause of economic inquiry.
Сторінка 104 - The school itself should be a pleasant place, and attractive to the eye both within and without. Within, the room should be bright and clean, and its walls should be ornamented by pictures. These should be either portraits of celebrated men, geographical maps, historical plans, or other ornaments. Without, there should be an open place to walk and to play in (for this is absolutely necessary for children, as we shall...
Сторінка 320 - ... pupils in city schools would not engage in manual labor the half of each day were the halftime system adopted. If in school only half of the day, they would spend the other half in idleness or on the streets, and some in worse places.
Сторінка 237 - A line drawn from the vertex of the right angle of a right triangle to the middle point of the hypotenuse divides the triangle into two isosceles triangles.
Сторінка 468 - She thought it was part of the hardship of her life that there was laid upon her the burthen of larger wants than others seemed to feel — that she had to endure this wide hopeless yearning for that something, whatever it was, that was greatest and best on this earth.
Сторінка 537 - Not that fine speaking is not a very good and commendable quality; but not so excellent and so necessary as some would make it; and I am scandalized that our whole life should be spent in nothing else. I would first understand my own language, and that of my neighbours with whom most of my business and conversation lies.

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