 | 1881 - 262 pages
...pursued. In place of it, an arbitrary system of names and sounds, having no significance in themselves, was adopted ; and with these generation after generation...there is no science in primary education, and that all there is to it can be learned in a few hours. The simple fact is, however, that within these few years... | |
 | American Institute of Instruction - 1880 - 232 pages
...pursued. In place of it, an arbitrary system of names and sounds, having no signifiance in themselves, was adopted ; and with these generation after generation...there is no science in primary education, and that all there is to it can be learned in a few hours. The simple fact is, however, that within these few years... | |
 | American Institute of Instruction - 1880 - 236 pages
...pursued. In place of it, an arbitrary system of names and sounds, having no signifiance in themselves, was adopted ; and with these generation after generation...there is no science in primary education, and that all there is to it can be learned in a few hours. The simple fact is, however, that within these few years... | |
 | Connecticut. Board of Education - 1881 - 282 pages
...pursued. In place of it, an arbitrary system of names and sounds, having no significance in themselves, was adopted ; and with these generation after generation...there is no science in primary education, and that all there is to it can be learned in a few hours. The simple fact is, however, that within these few years... | |
 | 1881 - 662 pages
...pursued. In place of it, an arbitrary system of names and sounds, having no significance in themselves, was adopted ; and with these generation after generation...knowledge, to give any attention to natural processes which * The italics are ours. have forever been going on before our eyes and in our families, and yet we... | |
 | Esmond Vedder De Graff, Margaret Keiver Smith - 1883 - 324 pages
...called on to learn in its whole life — without any instruction, and by simple practice. The practice of learning is not painful to it or wearisome to others...there is no science in primary education, and that all there is to it can be learned in a few hours. THE REFOKMS INSTITUTED. The new departure started with... | |
 | Allan Stanley Horlick - 1994 - 284 pages
...and arbitrary time-tables would disappear. Instead, classrooms would begin to follow the urgings of "natural processes, which have forever been going on before our eyes and our families," and the curriculum, formerly characterized as "tedious," would become "full of life... | |
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In place of it, an arbitrary system of names and sounds, having no significance in themselves, was adopted ; and with these generation after generation of children have been tortured. Only now do we deign, in imparting knowledge, to give any attention... 