The Eclectic Teacher and Southwestern Journal of Education: For Teachers and Friends of Education, Volume 5Eclectic Teacher Company, 1880 - Education |
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... common conception of a teacher's work . means . But this never resting nineteenth century does not stop here . Al- ready it has forced our leaders to swear allegience to a still harder task -the symmetrical development of character ...
... common conception of a teacher's work . means . But this never resting nineteenth century does not stop here . Al- ready it has forced our leaders to swear allegience to a still harder task -the symmetrical development of character ...
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... common maxim or direction of re- peating again and again is much abused . Repetition without thought or at- tention is hurtful . The boy learns to catch a ball by much practice , but he employs his powers at every repetition ; nay , he ...
... common maxim or direction of re- peating again and again is much abused . Repetition without thought or at- tention is hurtful . The boy learns to catch a ball by much practice , but he employs his powers at every repetition ; nay , he ...
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... common - place . The simple floweret , in leaf and stamen and pistil , speaks to the botanist in glowing terms of class and order , of genus and species , and of a sisterhood and brotherhood in other lands , thus adding to visible ...
... common - place . The simple floweret , in leaf and stamen and pistil , speaks to the botanist in glowing terms of class and order , of genus and species , and of a sisterhood and brotherhood in other lands , thus adding to visible ...
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... common , even when the National Union began its missionary work . What one lady characterized as " The great button and slipper argument " is seldom brought forward ; and that women may legitimately use their time and intelligence on ...
... common , even when the National Union began its missionary work . What one lady characterized as " The great button and slipper argument " is seldom brought forward ; and that women may legitimately use their time and intelligence on ...
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... common alphabet , and indicate by a system of diacritical marks the various sounds of the letters . By means of marks or fig . ures we easily distinguish five sounds of a , six sounds of o , etc. Professor March says : " A host of ...
... common alphabet , and indicate by a system of diacritical marks the various sounds of the letters . By means of marks or fig . ures we easily distinguish five sounds of a , six sounds of o , etc. Professor March says : " A host of ...
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Page 73 - And like unto him was there no king before him, that turned to the LORD with all his heart, and with all his soul, and with all his might, according to all the law of Moses ; neither after him arose there any like him.
Page 95 - Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, When it is in the power of thine hand to do it. Say not unto thy neighbour, Go, and come again, And to-morrow I will give: When thou hast it by thee.
Page 254 - What I want is a roan who is a Christian and a gentleman, an active man, and one who has common sense, and understands boys. I do not so much care about scholarship, as he will have immediately under him the lowest forms in the school ; but yet, on second thoughts. I do care about it very much, because his pupils may be in the highest forms ; and besides, I think that even the elements are best taught by a man who has a thorough knowledge of the matter. However, if one must give way, I prefer activity...
Page 253 - Thank you," which followed upon a successful answer or translation; the fall of his countenance with its deepening severity, the stern elevation of the eyebrows, the sudden "Sit down" which followed upon the reverse ; the courtesy and almost deference to the boys, as to his equals in society, so long as there was nothing to disturb the friendliness of their relation ; the startling earnestness with which he would check in a moment the slightest approach to levity...
Page 55 - Every person who takes into his employment a child of the age of ten and under the age of thirteen years resident in a school district, before that child has obtained a certificate of having reached the standard of education fixed by a bye-law in force in the district for the total or partial exemption of children of the like age from the obligation to attend school, shall be deemed to take such child into his employment in contravention of the Elementary Education Act, 1876, and shall be liable...
Page 329 - ... completeness attempted by no other publication, the best Essays, Reviews, Criticisms, Tales, Sketches of Travel and Discovery, Poetry, Scientific, Biographical, Historical and Political Information, from the entire body of Foreign Periodical Literature.
Page 167 - The great thing with knowledge and the young is to secure that it shall be their own — that it be not merely external to their inner and real self, but shall go in succum...
Page 165 - A sacrilegious son of Belial who suffered from bronchitis, having exhausted his finances, in order to make good the deficit, resolved to ally himself to a comely, lenient, and docile young lady of the Malay or Caucasian race. He accordingly purchased a calliope and...
Page 44 - I know what she told me the other day/ said her companion. " ' And what was that ? ' I asked. " ' Why, she said she was encouraged.
Page 39 - It is such an inexpressible relief to the person engaged in writing, or even reading, on looking up, not to have his line of vision chopped square off by an odious white wall, but to find his soul escaping, as it were, through the frame of an exquisite picture, to other beautiful, and perhaps idyllic scenes, where the fancy for a moment may revel, refreshed and delighted.