What is Education?Ginn, 1915 - 357 pages |
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... kind of practice which has value . Teachers when seeking a situation , frequently offer their long experience as an inducement to prospective employers to engage them . But it is not quantity of practice but quality of practice which ...
... kind of practice which has value . Teachers when seeking a situation , frequently offer their long experience as an inducement to prospective employers to engage them . But it is not quantity of practice but quality of practice which ...
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... kind . Difference of subject matter to which they apply is not the mark which distinguishes them . It is commonly believed that ordinary knowledge does not enable one to predict , whereas scientific knowledge does . Yet every boy who ...
... kind . Difference of subject matter to which they apply is not the mark which distinguishes them . It is commonly believed that ordinary knowledge does not enable one to predict , whereas scientific knowledge does . Yet every boy who ...
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... kind of phi- losophy of education which he carries about with him . How one couples up his notions of education with the scheme of things seems to us to be the most illuminating item that can be known about him . Indeed , so thoroughly ...
... kind of phi- losophy of education which he carries about with him . How one couples up his notions of education with the scheme of things seems to us to be the most illuminating item that can be known about him . Indeed , so thoroughly ...
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... Three kinds of schools . There are three kinds of schools which grow out of these three conceptions of education . According to the first kind , the great thing is knowledge . It is stored up in books [ 18 ] WHAT IS EDUCATION ?
... Three kinds of schools . There are three kinds of schools which grow out of these three conceptions of education . According to the first kind , the great thing is knowledge . It is stored up in books [ 18 ] WHAT IS EDUCATION ?
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... kind of school tends to regard knowl- edge as something common and unclean . It claims a loftier mission . It sets out to sharpen and perfect the mind by putting it to work not on matters that it will have to work on as long as its ...
... kind of school tends to regard knowl- edge as something common and unclean . It claims a loftier mission . It sets out to sharpen and perfect the mind by putting it to work not on matters that it will have to work on as long as its ...
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Page 218 - And though a linguist should pride himself to have all the tongues that Babel cleft the world into, yet if he have not studied the solid things in them as well as the words and lexicons, he were nothing so much to be esteemed a learned man as any yeoman or tradesman competently wise in his mother-dialect only.
Page 47 - And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.
Page 312 - There are nine and sixty ways of constructing tribal lays, And — every — single — one — of — them — is — right!
Page 240 - I am convinced that the method of teaching which approaches most nearly to the method of investigation is incomparably the best ; since, not content with serving up a few barren and lifeless truths, it leads to the stock on which they grew ; it tends to set the reader himself in the track of invention, and to direct him into those paths in which the author has made his own discoveries, if he should be so happy as to have made any that are valuable.
Page 245 - I happened to read for amusement ' Malthus on Population,' and being well prepared to appreciate the struggle for existence which everywhere goes on from long-continued observation of the habits of animals and plants, it at once struck me that under these circumstances favourable variations would tend to be preserved, and unfavourable ones to be destroyed. The result of this would be the formation of new species.
Page 84 - The business of education, as I have already observed, is not, as I think, to make them perfect in any one of the sciences, but so to open and dispose their minds as may best make them capable of any, when they shall apply themselves to it.
Page 74 - This is the way in which the study of the one has a power of drawing and converting the mind to the contemplation of true being. And surely, he said, this occurs notably in the case of one ; for we see the same thing to be both one and infinite in multitude?
Page 245 - This wonderful relationship in the same continent between the dead and the living, will, I do not doubt, hereafter throw more light on the appearance of organic beings on our earth and their disappearance from it than any other class of facts.
Page 325 - An impression first strikes upon the senses, and makes us perceive heat or cold, thirst or hunger, pleasure or pain of some kind or other. Of this impression there is a copy taken by the mind, which remains after the impression ceases; and this we call an idea.
Page x - Why, look you now, how unworthy a thing you make of me! You would play upon me; you would seem to know my stops; you would pluck out the heart of my mystery...