Primary Object Lessons for Training the Senses and Developing the Faculties of Childern: A Manuel of Elementary Instruction for Parents and Teachers

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Harper & Brothers, 1871 - 442 sivua
 

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Sivu 433 - The principles of the Christian religion as professed by the Protestant and Roman Catholic churches, are recognized as teaching men to do good, and to do to others as they would have others do to them.
Sivu 139 - Sounds which address the ear are lost and die In one short hour ; but that which strikes the eye Lives long upon the mind; the faithful sight Engraves the knowledge with a beam of light.
Sivu 360 - To tell a child this and to show it the other, is not to teach it how to observe, but to make it a mere recipient of another's observations ; a proceeding which weakens rather than strengthens its powers of self-instruction, which deprives it of the pleasures resulting from successful activity...
Sivu 21 - The defects in organization are not within the power of the preceptor; but we may observe, that inattention, and want of exercise, are frequently the causes of what are mistaken for natural defects; and, on the contrary, increased attention and cultivation sometimes produce that quickness of eye and ear, and that consequent readiness of judgment, which we are apt to attribute to natural superiority of organization or capacity.
Sivu 46 - pliant hour " must be taken for all processes of mental budding, grafting, or pruning, as well as in those of the orchard. An early dip into the study of nature, will serve to saturate the whole soul with a love for it so strong as to insure the prosecution of such subjects for life. The season is auspicious ; the senses are fresh and susceptible ; the mind is awake ; the heart is alive ; the memory is retentive ; nature is yet a scene of novelty and delight ; and application is a pleasure. The...
Sivu 314 - is obvious, since the labour requisite for learning the one may all be made available for learning the other. The objection to this method is, not that it combines the two, but that it does so in an unnatural and awkward manner ; so that, instead of helping, they interfere with each another. Spelling rests on a habit of the eye, which is best acquired as the result of reading ; this method, which inverts their proper relation, not only deprives the learner of the natural facilities which reading...
Sivu 361 - Children should be led to make their own investigations, and to draw their own inferences. They should be told as little as possible, and induced to discover as much as possible. Humanity has progressed solely by selfinstruction; and that to achieve the best results each mind must progress somewhat after the same fashion, is continually proved by the marked success of self-made men.
Sivu iii - There is abundant evidence from his works that he did not mean by this, that observation should be the principal object of instruction at its earlier stage and language at a later period. The English and...
Sivu 338 - ... in learning the spelling or the pronunciation of the word, I deem this repeated pronouncing of syllables a needless perplexity and hindrance to their progress in attaining the end for which spelling should be taught, viz : to enable them to write words correctly. " Every requirement of the teacher that diverts the attention of the pupils from the order and arrangement of the letters that form the word, and from its pronunciation as a whole, is a hindrance rather than an aid to their progress...
Sivu 360 - ... above described is simply to guide the intellect to its appropriate food; to join with the intellectual appetites their natural adjuncts — amour propre and the desire for sympathy; to induce by the union of all these an intensity of attention which insures perceptions alike vivid and complete; and to habituate the mind from the beginning to that practice of self-help which it must ultimately follow.

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