The Eclectic Teacher and Southwestern Journal of Education: For Teachers and Friends of Education, Volume 4Eclectic Teacher Company, 1879 - Education |
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Page 49 - I shut them from breaking a rule ; My frown is sufficient correction ; My love is the law of the school. I shall leave the old house in the autumn, To traverse its threshold no more ; Ah t how I shall sigh for the dear ones, That meet me each morn at the door ! I shall miss the
Page 39 - A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.
Page 37 - Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding. For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold.
Page 227 - ... to natural parts for all their knowledge. Their youth is spent to teach them to stitch and sew or make baubles. They are taught to read, indeed, and perhaps to write their names or so, and that is the height of a woman's education. And I would but ask any who slight the sex for their understanding, what is a man (a gentleman, I mean) good for that is taught no more?
Page 227 - I have often thought of it as one of the most barbarous customs in the world, considering us as a civilized and a Christian country, that we deny the advantages of learning to women. We reproach the sex every day with folly and impertinence, while I am confident, had they the advantages of education equal to us, they would be guilty of less than ourselves.
Page 322 - The teacher is responsible for the discipline of his school and for the progress, conduct, and deportment of his pupils. It is his imperative duty to maintain good order and to require of his pupils a faithful performance of their duties.
Page 49 - When the lessons and tasks are all ended, And the school for the day is dismissed...
Page 49 - While it wakes to the pulse of the past, Ere the world and its wickedness made me A partner of sorrow and sin ; When the glory of God was about me, And the glory of gladness within.
Page 49 - The twig is so easily bended, I have banished the rule and the rod, I have taught them the goodness of knowledge, They have taught me the goodness of God...
Page 125 - I weigh my words when , I say, that if the nation • could purchase a potential Watt, or Davy, or Faraday, at the cost of a hundred thousand pounds down, he would be dirt-cheap at the money.